Taharahaus (Oettingen)

Tahara house in Oettingen

Plaque with the year of construction 1850

The Tahara House on the Jewish cemetery in Oettingen in Bavaria , a town in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries , was built in 1850/51. The Taharahaus , on the road to Dornstadt , is a protected monument as part of the cemetery .

description

The Tahara House was built according to the plans of the architect F. Leitner. It also served as a Jewish poor house . A plaque with the year of construction is attached to the house. There are also prayers for ritual hand washing, an alms box ( zedaka ) and a memorial plaque outside the Tahara house .

literature

• Ulrich Knufinke: Buildings of Jewish cemeteries in Germany (= series of publications by the Bet-Tfila Research Center for Jewish Architecture in Europe 3). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, pp. 71f., ISBN 978-3-86568-206-2 (also: Braunschweig, Technische Universität, dissertation, 2005).

Web links

Commons : Taharahaus (Oettingen in Bayern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Inscriptions on the Tahara House in Oettingen at the Jewish Historical Association Augsburg

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 36 ′ 33 ″  E