Metadata: Jewish Community Münster; Jewish Community Bocholt; Jewish Community Haltern; Jewish Community Havixbeck
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Archiv
- Postal address:
- Oranienburger Str. 28-30, 10117 Berlin
- Phone number:
- 0049-30-88028-425
- Web address:
- www.centrumjudaicum.de
- Reference number:
- CJA, 1 A Mu 2; 1 A Bo 1; 1 A Ha 4; 1 A Ha 11
- Title:
- Jewish Community Münster; Jewish Community Bocholt; Jewish Community Haltern; Jewish Community Havixbeck
- Title (official language):
- Jüdische Gemeinde Münster; Jüdische Gemeinde Bocholt; Jüdische Gemeinde Haltern; Jüdische Gemeinde Havixbeck
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community Münster (Synagogengemeinde Münster); Central Archives of the German Jews (Gesamtarchiv der deutschen Juden); Jewish Community Haltern (Synagogengemeinde Haltern); Jews in Havixbeck (Judenschaft in Havixbeck)
- Date(s):
- 1827/1925
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1.0 linear metre (54 archival units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the synagogue community in Münster comprises 41 files from 1827-1912. It includes files on the general administration of the community (elections, record book of the board, invitations to board meetings), as well as files on personnel matters, including the payment of the salary of rabbi Abraham Sutro (1784-1869). The collection also contains files on real estate and buildings (including the construction of the synagogue in Klosterstrasse, reconstruction of the synagogue, lease of synagogue seats), finances and religious matters (synagogue regulations, kosher meat, etc.). Further files concern support and donations or contributions for various institutions (Marks-Haindorf Foundation, Israelite orphanage for Westphalia and Rhineland in Paderborn, Israelite retirement home in Westphalia (Unna)). There are also two files with printed matter from the Marks-Haindorf Foundation and the Israelitischer Frauenverein [Israelite Women’s Association] Münster.
From Havixbeck (not far from Münster) there is only a thin file with division and purchase agreements, including the expansion of the cemetery in 1834.
There are eight files from Haltern from the period 1843-1897 (and one sheet from 1925). One file contains correspondence from the board of directors, personnel and religious matters (including synagogue regulations from 1860) and appeals for donations. Two files contain personnel matters of the teacher and the religious official (including employment contracts), 1859-1897. The remaining files concern the finances of the community (budget, income and expenditure), 1843-1896.
No documents have survived from Bocholt, only printed items from 1909-1912 from the collection of the General Archives of German Jews. These are the constitution of the Israelitischer Frauenverein [Israelite Women's Association] from 1909 as well as the statutes (1909) and reports (for 1910 and 1911) of the aid association Esrass K’fufim. There is also a copy of the founding memorandum of the Chewra Kadisha from 1826 (made in 1912).
The collection of the Jewish community in Burgsteinfurt is described in a separate record.
- Archival history:
- The files of the synagogue community of Münster, Haltern and Havixbeck were part of the former Gesamtarchiv der deutschen Juden [General Archive of German Jews]. The printed items (collection items) were kept in the general archive in a separate collection (Collection Süßmann). In 1996 the Federal Archives transferred the holdings to the archive of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
With the dissolution of the Hochstift Münster in 1803, large parts of it came to Prussia; after 1815, with the establishment of the Province of Westphalia, the administrative district of Münster was created. The Prussian edict concerning the civil conditions of the Jews of 1812 was initially not applied in Westphalia. With the law on the conditions of the Jews of 1847, the communities became public corporations, which were now called synagogue communities.
Jews were already living in Münster at times in the Middle Ages and the early modern era. A permanent community emerged at the beginning of the 19th century when, under French rule, Jews were again allowed to settle in the city from 1810. A new cemetery was established in 1811 and a synagogue was built from 1830. A newly built synagogue was inaugurated in 1880. In 1816 there were 72 Jews in the city, in 1843 there were 182.
Alexander Haindorf (1782-1862) was active in Münster. He was the founder of the Marks-Haindorf Foundation (founded in 1825 as an association for the promotion of crafts among the Jews and for the establishment of a school), which trained Jewish teachers among other charitable aims. In the 1840s there were conflicts within the community between supporters of the reform movement and orthodoxy, embodied mainly by the state rabbi Abraham Sutro (1784-1869), who had been working there since 1815.
Before the First World War 637 Jews lived in Münster, before 1933 around 600.
Bocholt was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in western Münsterland, with around 300 Jews living here shortly before the First World War.
In 1843 eleven Jews lived in Havixbeck (Coesfeld district); they used the synagogue in Nottuln. The town belonged to the synagogue community Telgte in the last third of the 19th century.
Jews lived in Haltern continuously from the 17th century until the Nazi era. A cemetery existed from the last third of the 18th century. In 1860 a new synagogue was built. A Jewish school existed until 1897. Around 1843, 76 Jews (15 families) lived in Haltern, before 1933 there were 27 Jews.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Haindorf, Alexander
- Sutro, Abraham
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is divided into the following groups: organisation and general administration of the community (including board of directors and representatives; personnel matters), real estate and buildings, finance and taxes, religious practice and school, support, charity and associations.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid exists.
- Links to finding aids:
- www.findbuch.net
- Yerusha Network member:
- Centrum Judaicum
- Author of the description:
- Barbara Welker (with Isabel Iselt); Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum; 2019-2020