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 Palatinate-Mosbach (1410-1485)
Prince-Bishopric of Worms (1485-1705)
Electoral Palatinate (1705-1803)
1803 - 1871 Grand Duchy of Baden
1871 - Present Germany
 German Empire (1871-1918)
Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
Federal Republic (1945-Present)
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.

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

1710
 1717
 1728
 1733
 1736
 1743 1744 / 1746 1753
 1765
 1771
 1801
 1815
Eisig

Salomon
 Itzig (80)

Salomon (42)

Borich (30)		 Salomon Eisig [d. 1742]

Leser Salomon (since 1727)

Baruch

Zacharias
 Salomon Isaac (since 1722)

Lazarus (1727)

Baruch (1722)

Zacharias (1722)
 Salomon
(60, from Hemsbach, 2 sons, 4 daughters)

Leser Salamon
(32, from Hemsbach, 2 daughters)

Baruch
(50, from Hemsbach, 4 daughters)

Zacharias widow
(48, from Buchen, 4 sons, 4 daughters)
 Leser Salomon
{lives with wife, 2 daughters}

(Eyssig Salomon widow)
{lives with 1 daughter - also 1 married daughter in Rimbach (in Schönberg)}

Baruch
{lives with wife}		 Baruch

Zacharias		 Löser Salomon Löser Salomon

Callman Zacharias		 Leser Salomon

Salomon Zacharias
Moses KALMAN [57]
Josef
 Josef (70)

Feis (33)		 Feist Feist (1722)
 Veist
(58, from Hemsbach, 3 sons)
 Veiss Joseph
{lives with wife, 1 son, 1 daughter - also 2 married sons, in Hemsbach and Großsachsen}

Hayum Veist [d. 1747]
{lives with wife}
 Feist Josef [d. 1747]

Hertz Feist
(also 1746)
 (Veist Joseph widow)

Herz Veist		 (Veist Joseph widow)

Herz Veist

Josef Veist		 Zippora (Veist widow)

Herz Veist [d. 1794]

Josel Feist [d. 1794]
 Löw Herz

Samuel Herz

Feiss Josel
 Löw Herz MAAS [61] **

Samuel Herz MAAS [55]

Feist Jossel EMRICH [61]

Simon Löw Oppenheimer (38) Hayum Simon (since 1726)
 Simon (1726)

Hayum (1726)
 Simon Low
(61, from Heidelberg, 3 sons, 7 daughters)

Hayum Simon
(36, from Hemsbach, 1 daughter)
 Simon Löw
{lives with wife, 2 sons, 4 daughters - also 2 married sons, in Hemsbach and Hoffenheim, 3 married daughters in Hemsbach, Heppenheim, and Reichelsheim}

Hayum Simon
{lives with wife, 1 daughter}		 Samson Löw [d. 1753]

Hayum Samson		 (Simon Löw widow)

Hayum Simon		 (Simon Löw widow)

Löw Simon

Hayum Simon		 Löw Simon [d. 1772]

(Löw Simon widow)

Hayum Simon [d. 1788]
 Simon Löw Oppenheimer

Herz Löw Oppenheimer

Agate (Hayum Oppenheimer widow)

Joel Hayum
 Simon OPPENHEIMER [57]

Herz OPPENHEIMER [56]

Jachet OPPENHEIMER [67]

Joel Chaim OPPENHEIMER [49]

Zacharias OPPENHEIMER [30]



Samuel (1722)
 Samuel
(60, from Hemsbach, 2 sons, 2 daughters)
 Samuel Anschel
{lives with wife, 3 sons} 		Samuel

Joseph Samuel [d. 1755]
(only 1746)
 Samuel Anschel [d. 1755] (Samuel Anschel widow) (Samuel Anschel widow)

Abraham Samuel		 Abraham Samuel

Lazarus Abraham		 Anschel Afrom FURST [38]

Leiser Abraham ZIMMER [52]






Löw Mennle
(Löw Emmanuel in 1746)		 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 Eliakim 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)


* 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 {living with wife - also 1 married son in Laudenbach}, 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.
7. Maurer, Camill. Geschichte der Gemeinde Hemsbach an der Bergstraße. Selbstverl. d. Gemeinde, 1930