Buttenhausen Jewish community collection

The bulk of the collection in folder 1 deals with a 1787 letter of protection for 25 Jewish families, allowing them to settle in Buttenhausen: included are a 1919 transcript of the original document, as well as clippings about festivities at the letter’s 200th anniversary in 1987. Also included in folder 1 are an itemized dowry of Martha Hirsch, 1829 (photocopy); notes that summarize the history of the Jewish community in Buttenhausen; materials that document the years of Nazi rule; as well as clippings and publications that were issued on occasion of two memorials for Jews from Buttenhausen, erected in 1961 and 1966. Varia include circulars, correspondence, and clippings, as well as family trees pertaining to the Bernheimer, Levi, and Löwenthal families.

Folder 2: Newspaper clippings from Reutlinger General Anzeiger, December 1992, about the restoration of the former Bernheimer'sche Realschule in Buttenhausen to serve as a civic center.

Folder 3: Newspaper clippings and publications from 1998, commemorating the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht in Buttenhausen.

Folder 4: Newspaper clippings from 2000, informing about a memorial plaque on a former detention center for Jews, known 1940-1944 as “Jüdisches Altersheim.”