The Jews of Hainsfarth E-Book

Yehuda Shenef

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 29

Beschreibung

Hainsfarth is a small town next to Oettingen, located in Bavaria somewhat halfway between Augsburg and Nuremberg, not far from Nördlingen. At least since the 13th century, Jews lived in Hainsfarth, where they made up half of the population at times. There has been no Jewish community since 1940, but with the restored synagogue, the recently renovated Jewish school, remnants of a Mikveh and a largely preserved Jewish cemetery, Hainsfarth has a remarkable ensemble of architectural evidence of Jewish life and culture in southern Germany. The descendants of the Hainsfarth Jews produced scholars, actors and successful bankers. After all, two of the four teachers of the Jewish school were close relatives of later US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The booklet describes with numerous illustrations in short form history and institutions of the Jews of Hainsfarth.

Leseprobe

Postcard from 1920 - Synagogue (detail)

Postcard from 1906 - Synagogue (detail)

Content

Timetable

On the History of the Jews in Hainsfarth

The Immersion Bath

The Synagogue

The Jewish School

The Cemetery

Hainsfarth Jews

Steinhart

Acknowledgment

Illustration

Literature, Links, Sources

Timetable

4. cent

archaeological evidence about Jews in Augsburg

13. cent

written evidence on Jews in Oettingen, Nördlingen and Donauwörth

1434

a „Jew from Hainsfarth“ is buried at the Jewish cemetery at Henkelberg hill in Nördlingen

1480

an episcopal visitation report notes 4 Jews in Hainsfarth

1667 & 1672

the Jews schoolmaster

Rabbi Abraham

is mentioned in a document. He also is noted as Talmud teacher, mohel (circumciser), shochet (kosher butcher) and precentor.

1722

Prayer house in the Judengasse. (today Jurastr.)

1749

Barnos (chairman)

David Löw

1764

Schoolmaster

Rabbi Jakob Koppel Ettingen

1770

Jews schoolmaster

Rabbi Hirsch Koppel

1782

Jews school master

Rabbi Josef Löw Hirsch

mentioned in house 30 (today Jurastr. 29)

1792

Barnos

Moses Natan

(Obermeyer)

1795

Rabbi Pinchas Katzenellenbogen

(1769-1845) the rabbi of Oettingen also is responsable for Hainsfarth

1809

Jews school master

Borich Bär

noted in house 42 (today Jurastr. 8)

1820

construction and inauguration of the school house in

1810/11

Judengasse (today Jurastr.)

1829

opening of the new immersion bath (mikveh) in today’s Kohlgasse 7

1831

soap soiler Mendel Laubheimer in Mühlstr. 2

1834

soap soiler Seligman Neumann noted in Jurastr. 17

1850

inauguration of the Jewish cemetery of Hainsfarth.

1856

synagogue damaged in June by a storm, closed end of the year the nearby school house is used for worship services

1858

demolition of the old synagogue

1859

onset of the reconstruction

1860

inauguration of the new synagogue

1898

parish council Salomon Gutmann in Jurastr. 1

1916

Emil Goldschmidt, teacher of the Jewish school in Hainsfarth killed in Romania as German soldier during World War One

1923

closing-down of the Jewish school due to lack of pupils

1938

Nazis are looting the synagogue

1942

deportation of the remaining Jews of Hainsfarth

1944

Synagogue is misused as storage room

1963

Protestant Christians from nearby Oettingen acquire the former synagogue building. The proposed conversion into a church however was not realized

1978

the city council of Hainsfarth repurchased the synagogue, which now is used as gym and freezing plant

1992

the unused part of the Jewish cemetery with the Tahara is separated from graveyard

1989-96

restauration of the old synagogue

1996

Opening of the former synagogue as „cultural center”

1996

founding of the Freundeskreis (Supporter Group of the) Synagogue Hainsfarth

2014

restauration of 3 grave marker at Hainsfarth cemetery

2015

discovery of remnants from an ancient mikveh at the courtyard of the synagogue

2019

restauration of the old Jewish schoolhouse

memorial plate inside the synagogue for Hainsfarth Jews murdered in Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp

Development of Jewish population of Hainsfarth

1699

207

1724

199

1739

222

1760

315

1807

422

1811

474

1823

452

1836

441

1869

256

1875

232

1904

135

1910

91

1928

42

1933

34

1943

0

1996

0

2019

0

The matriculation register of the Eichstätt diocese of 1836 mentions 93 Jewish households, 441 people, synagogue and school in Hainsfarth