Metadata: Jewish Community Segeberg
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- 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 Se 3
- Title:
- Jewish Community Segeberg
- Title (official language):
- Jüdische Gemeinde Segeberg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community Segeberg (Israelitische Gemeinde Segeberg)
- Date(s):
- 1793/1936
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.43 linear metres (28 archival units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The first series contains files on the general administration of the community, 1837-1936: community assemblies, board meetings, minutes (1837-1866), chief rabbi in Altona. One file contains, among other things, the program for the inauguration ceremony of the newly built synagogue in Segeberg on 14 June 1842 (printed, with two illustrations) and the regulations for the Israelite community in Segeberg of 29 June1872. Another file concerns the inclusion of the Jews living in Neumünster in the community, 1912-1913.
There are also files on membership in various associations (German-Israelite Community Association, 1890-1934, Union of Law-Abiding Jewish Communities in Germany, 1921-1927, Prussian State Association of Jewish Communities, 1925-1936, Association of Jewish Communities in Schleswig-Holstein and the Hanseatic Cities, 1928 -1936).
Among the building files there is a file on the cemetery (with purchase contract for the property, 1793, site plan, 1853) as well as the minutes of the building commission, 1853-1876. The series of financial documentation includes the budget of the community from 1907/08 to 1928/29, files on community tax matters, 1919-1927, and two files on tax contributions by members in Neumünster, 1921-1936.
There is also a file with the reports sent to the Prussian State Association regarding religious education and the community's cultural activities, 1926 - 1935. A small file concerns the lending of a Torah scroll and other religious objects to the Museum für Völkerkunde [Ethnographic Museum] in Lübeck, which was planning to set up a department for Jewish folklore, 1932. Finally, there are documents of the from the Men's Nursing and Burial Society (Chewra Kadischa): minute book, 1793-1861, statutes from 1862, cash books 1834-1891.
- Archival history:
- The files of the Israelite community in Segeberg were previously held by the Central Archives of German Jews. They were transferred in 1996 by the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) to the archive of the Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum (Foundation New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum).
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were part of Denmark until 1864; in 1866 they came to Prussia, which combined them in 1867 in the province of Schleswig-Holstein. Jews had lived in Holstein since the 17th century and were only allowed to settle in a few locations. With the law of 14 July 1863 concerning the conditions of the Jews in the Duchy of Holstein, they were granted legal equality. In 1946, the province became the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Segeberg, which was initially founded as a castle settlement, received city rights in 1230. A brine bath was built here in the 1880s, and the town has been called Bad Segeberg since 1924. Jews were permitted to settle in Segeberg from the first half of the 18th century, and since 1756 they had a prayer room. The deceased were initially buried in Altona; In 1793 the community established its own cemetery, and the Chevra Kadischa was founded in the same year. The synagogue, located in a converted private house, was consecrated in 1842. At that time 22 Jewish families lived in the city. Around 1890, twelve families (42 people) belonged to the community, in 1913 it was 54. From 1913, the Jews living in Neumünster also belonged to the community; in 1925, 94 Jews lived in the entire Segeberg district.
- Access points: locations:
- Neumünster
- Segeberg
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Education
- Hevrah kadisha
- Jewish community
- Museums
- Rabbis
- Synagogues
- Taxation
- Yerusha Network member:
- Centrum Judaicum
- Author of the description:
- Sabine Hank/Barbara Welker; Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum; 2020, 2022
