Metadata: Archive of the Jewish Community Bremgarten
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Community Bremgarten
- Holding institution (official language):
- Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Bremgarten
- Postal address:
- Ringstrasse 37, CH-5620 Bremgarten
- Phone number:
- +41 56 633 37 30
- Email:
- rm.info@bluewin.ch
- Title:
- Archive of the Jewish Community Bremgarten
- Title (official language):
- Archiv der Israelitischen Cultusgemeinde Bremgarten
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of Bremgarten
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection has not been and will not be sighted in the near future. The files date back to the 1920s; there are isolated earlier documents, but not a complete collection. Three publications (1966, 1992 and 2019) have been issued on the history of the community.
- Archival history:
- The collection is not catalogued. This will not change in the near future.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jews settled in Bremgarten from the late Middle Ages until the end of the 16th century. Then, for about 250 years, no Jews lived there. After 1848, when Jews were gradually granted freedom of settlement, the small industrial town of Bremgarten became a place of business and residence for many Jews. In the 1860s they founded an "Israelite Cultusgenossenschaft” [Jewish religious association]. From around 1900 until the conversion in the 1990s, the synagogue was established on the top floor of the residential building at Antonigasse 14. Due to emigration, the Jewish community today has only a few members.
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application. However, it seems unlikely that access will be granted.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
