Metadata: Archive of the Jewish Community Lucerne
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Community Lucerne
- Holding institution (official language):
- Jüdische Gemeinde Luzern
- Postal address:
- Bruchstrasse 51, CH-6003 Lucerne
- Phone number:
- +41 41 3109815 and +41 41 24 06 400
- Web address:
- http://jgluzern.ch/de/home-2/
- Title:
- Archive of the Jewish Community Lucerne
- Title (official language):
- Archiv der Jüdischen Gemeinde Luzern
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of Lucerne
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- No information could be obtained.
- Archival history:
- Large parts of the holdings of the Lucerne Jewish Community were discarded several years ago.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- First indications of of Jews in Lucerne date back to 1288. At the beginning of the 14th century, a small community formed in the city whose members were mostly from Alsace and southern Germany. Their residences were located in the "Judengasse", the later Metzgergasse. In the course of the centuries, Jewish inhabitants were repeatedly expelled from the city; the wave of persecution reached a first peak during the plague period (1348/1349); in 1401, Jews were again expelled from the city. Only since the 1860s can one speak of a permanent settlement of Jewish families in Lucerne; they soon founded the "Israelitischer Kultusverein", which was renamed "Jewish Community Lucerne" in 1917. From 1886 the community owned a rented prayer room in the "Alter Adler", then in the "Mariahilf" on Grabenstraße. In 1907 the members of the community founded a synagogue building association, which engaged the Frankfurt architect Max Seckbach to build the synagogue.
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
