SCHWÄBISCH HALL (SCHWAEBISCH HALL) incorporating STEINBACH:

Jewish community was first mentioned 1241/42 when Jews paid 8 Haller silver marks to the king. This medieval Jewish community went through pogroms (plague) in 1349. In the late 14th and in the 15th centuries. Individual Jews lived in the city later on only an hourly or daily basis, probably for markets. In the 19th century they resettled in Schwäbisch Hall until 1939. The area in 1200 was to the south by the city walls, built in a limited way. On the East it reached from the street to Unterwöhrdstor on the west, to Haalplatz and north to Haalstraße. In this area was also the 1356 "Jewish school", as the synagogue. Later this was the slaughter house, remain in the basement wall of the medieval period are preserved. A document from 1356 to the synagogue in the back was offset at Haalstraße at the city wall. The yard was in a document from 1457, directed to Sulfertor. In another document, which dates from 1445 mentioned that the "Jewish house" lights could not be installed. According to a document from 1457, the property was sold to the Jewish school. Eventually, they had a prayer room, a Jewish school and a mikvah. A teacher was both cantor and shochet  In the Middle Ages, the Jews lived in the Schwäbisch Hall and on the southernmost section of the filled-in "Blockgassenkochers".. The village belonged until 1914 to Bezirksrabbinat in Braunsbach. They used the Jewish Cemetery in Steinbach, now incorparted in the town. Around 1880 was the peak Jewish population, 263 people out of a total of 9,222. 1933: 115 of 11,239  Afterward, any of them left under the repressions of the Nazis, while others were deported between 1941 and 1942. The 19th century Jewish community in Schwäbisch Hall held services in Steinbach. For a prayer room, they bought Upper House Herrengasse 8 in late 1892 The prayer room on the western side (front) of the building behind a shop on the ground floor that opened on 22 September 1893 was used for ordinary services with festivals still celebrated in Steinbach. The house in the Upper Herrengasse 8 also contained a school hall and a small apartment for the rabbi. The prayer room was demolished in the November 1938 pogrom. Local Nazi party officials destroyed the interior and burned religious objects and inventory in the marketplace.  After WWII, three camps for displaced persons were created where around 1,300 Jewish people were housed, but not in Schwäbisch Hall. Most emigrated to Israel. The camp existed until beginning of 1949. After 1990, Jews mainly from the CIS countries moved here. The Schwäbisch Hall Jewish community authority is Württemberg (IRGW). The building itself was restored in 1985 and carries a billboard. In the marketplace remembers David Stern with explanatory text on the events of 1938. The current Jewish community in Schwäbisch Hall uses premises in the old abattoir for their services.  [Mar 2013]

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• houses lexicon Schwäbisch Hall
• Description of the findings on www.bauforschung-bw.de
• Purim in the branches . 8th Jewish community newspaper IRGW January / February 2013, pp.