HEMSBACH (המסבאך)


a town on the Bergstraße trade route about 18 km northeast of Mannheim in Landkreis Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany



Time Period Region
Before 1803 Holy Roman Empire Pfalz-Mosbach (1410-1449)
Electoral Palatinate (1705-1803)
1803 - 1871 Grand Duchy of Baden
1871 - 1918 German Empire
1918 - 1933 Weimar Republic
1933 - 1945 Nazi Germany
1945 - Present Federal Republic of Germany Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district, Baden- Württemberg
Year Jewish Population Total  Population
1722 9 families
1825 61 families 1,533
1871 140
1875 111 1,604
1900 101 1,977
1910 89 2,530
1925 86 2,876
1933 54 3,014
1936 46
1938 33
1939 22
1941 0
List of Jews (1661-1815)
Vital records
 Births
Marriages
Deaths
1815 Surname adoptions
Burial register

The following chart is an attempt (based on known sources) to trace the lineage of Hemsbach residents from the patronymic period up to the adoption of surnames. As new information becomes available, this chart will be updated and, hopefully, become increasingly more accurate.

before 1722
 1710 Narungszettel
 1717 Narungszettel (age)
 1722 Census
 1726-27
 1729 Petition
 1743 Census
 1744
 1746
 1753
 1765
 1771
 1801
 1815
Isaac [1670]
 Eisig
Salomon
 Itzig (80)
Salomon (42)
Borich (30)		 Salomon Isaac
Baruch Isaac
Zacharias Isaac		 Lazarus [1727]
 Salomon [d. 1742]
Baruch
Zacharias
Josef		 Leser Salomon
{wife, 2 daughters, father}

(Eyssig Salomon widow)
{daughter - 1 married daughter in Rimbach}

Baruch
{wife}		 Baruch
Zacharias
Löser Salomon Löser Salomon
Callman Zacharias		 Leser Salomon
Salomon Zacharias
Moses KALMAN [57]
Joseph [1677]
 Josef
 Josef (70)
Feis (33)		 Feist
Feist Veiss Joseph
{wife, son, daughter, mother - 2 married sons in Hemsbach and Sachsen}

Hayum Veist [d. 1747]
{wife, father, mother}		 Feist Josef [d. 1747]
Hertz Feist		 Herz Feist (Veist Joseph widow)
Herz Veist		 (Veist Joseph widow)
Herz Veist
Josef Veist		 Herz Veist [d. 1794]
Josel Feist [d. 1794]
Zippora (widow of Veist ?)		 Feiss Josel
Löw Herz
Samuel Herz		 Feist Jossel EMRICH [61]
Löw Herz MAAS [61] **
Samuel Herz MAAS [55]


Simon Löw Oppenheimer (38)
Simon [1726]
Hayum [1726]
 Samson Simon Löw
{wife, 2 sons, 4 daughters - 2 married sons in Hemsbach and Hoffenheim, 2 married daughters in Hemsbach, Heppenheim, and ?}

Hayum Simon
{wife, daughter, mother}		 Samson Löw [d. 1753]
Hayum Samson
(Simon Löw widow)
Hayum Simon		 (Simon Löw widow)
Löw Simon
Hayum Simon		 Löw Simon [d. 1772]
Hayum Simon [d. 1788]
(Löw Simon widow)		 Simon Löw Oppenheimer
Herz Löw Oppenheimer
Joel Hayum
Agate (Hayum Oppenheimer widow)		 Simon OPPENHEIMER [57]
Herz OPPENHEIMER [56]
Joel Chaim OPPENHEIMER [49]
Jachet OPPENHEIMER [67]
Zacharias OPPENHEIMER [30]



Samuel

Samuel Anschel
{wife, 3 sons}		 Samuel Joseph Samuel [d. 1755] Samuel Anschel [d. 1755] (Samuel Anschel widow) (Samuel Anschel widow/
Abraham Samuel mother)
Abraham Samuel		 Lazarus Abraham
Abraham Samuel		 Leiser Abraham ZIMMER [52]
Anschel Afrom FURST [38]







Löw Mennle Löw Emmanuel Löb Mäntle Löw Emanuel
Simon Emanuel		 Löw Mendel
Simon Mendel		 Simon Mendele Löw
Simon Löw Emanuel
(Löw Emanuel Kaals widow)
(Simon Emanuel widow)
Salomon Levi *		 Mandel Löw JANKAU [62]
Salomon Löw JANKAU [47]
Simon Löw JANKAU [57]











Mordge Marx Marx Jacob Mardochei JAKOB [77]


Jehoshua Eliakum Isaac
(1637-1725)		 Salomon
(1675-1742)		 Isaac
Leser
Baruch
(1687)

Zacharias Callman Moses KALMAN
(1758)
Josef
(1647-1722)		 Eliakum
( -1714)

Feiss
(1684-1747)		 Josel
( -1794)		 Feiss EMRICH
(1754-1823) 
Elkele
Moses (PFÄLZER)
(-1797)
Herz
( -1794)
 Löw MAAS
(1754)
Samuel MAAS
(1760)
Hayum
( -1747)

Notes: In the chart below, death dates [d.] are based on the Hemsbach cemetery burial register (Berthold Rosenthal Collection)

* In Berthold Rosenthal notes of records from 1796, there is a reference to a Salomon Löw Levi (this must be the later Salomon Löw JANKAU)
** In Berthold Rosenthal notes of records from 1785, Löw Herz MAAS was previously Löw Herz Feist (confirming his paternal line)

The following individuals show up in the records intermittently but do not appear to have a continuous lineage to the 19th century in Hemsbach:

Machol (1661)
Hertz (1676)
Sara, wid. (1676)
Schumger (1710)
Soger (1710, 1717 [46])
Wolf Aaron (1717 [30], 1722, 1729, 1743 {wife, father}, 1744, 1753)
Daniel (1729)
Mayer Nickelsburger (1746)
Isaak Bar BAER (1815 [22])


References
1. Allemania Judaica: Hemsbach community (translation), Hemsbach cemetery (translation)
2. Berthold Rosenthal Collection (sources in Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe (GLA))
  • up to 1743: GLA 77/7257
    Die in kurpfälzischen Landen wohnenden Juden und deren Vermögen, sowie die Judenschafts-Konzessionen
    The Jews living in the Electorate of the Palatinate and their property, as well as the Jewish concessions (1733-54)
  • 1753: GLA 77/7269
    Die in der Kurpfalz wohnenden und aufs neue angenommenen Judenfamilien
    The newly accepted Jewish families living in the Electoral Palatinate (1753)
  • 1765: GLA 77/7251
    Verzeichnisse der in Kurpfalz wohnenden Juden und des von jedem einzelnen zu entrichtenden Schutzgeldes
    Lists of Jews living in Electoral Palatinate and the protection money to be paid by each individual (1765-66)
  • 1801: GLA 77/3034
    Die von den Oberämtern, Stadt- und Landjudenschaftsvorständen eingeforderten Berichte über die Anzahl der Judenfamilien und die Art ihrer Beschäftigung etc.
    The reports requested by the higher offices, city and rural Jewish councils about the number of Jewish families and the nature of their employment, etc. (1801)
  • Josel Feist: GLA 77/3018
    Kommissionsprotokolle mit Beilagen über die stadt- und landjudenschaftlichen Vorfallenheiten
    Commission minutes with enclosures about the urban and rural Jewish incidents (1775-81)
  • Feiss Josel: GLA 77/7307
    Kommissionsprotokolle mit Beilagen über die stadt- und landjudenschaftlichen Vorfallenheiten
    Commission minutes and enclosures about the urban and rural Jewish incidents (1782-99)

3. Der Förderverein Ehemalige Synagoge in Hemsbach e.V. (translation)s
4. "Hemsbach." Pinkas ha-kehilot Germanyah : entsiklopedyah shel ha-yishuvim ha-Yehudim le-min hivasdam ve-'ad le-ahar Sho'at Milhemet ha-'olam ha-sheniyah: Württemberg, Hohenzollern, Baden. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1986. pp. 323-325.
5. Hössler, Harald. Juden in Hemsbach 1660-1933. Heidelberg: Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg, 1984.
6. Kastner, Julius Friedrich. Hemsbach an der Bergstraße im Wandel der Zeit. Hemsbach: 1980.