Mingolsheim and Langenbrücken today's Bad Schönborn, belonged to the Hochstift Speyer from the 13th century until 1803. The respective bishop of Speyer was both secular and spiritual head of his territory. The official and administrative seat of the prince bishop for both places was Kislau Castle until 1722. Soon after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, Jews were admitted to Mingolsheim in larger numbers. In 1720 there were five Jewish families living here, but it seems that there were already Jewish inhabitants in the village earlier. As "Schutzjuden" they had to pay high taxes to the prince bishops and served them mainly as a source of income.
With the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Baden, the legal status of the Jews gradually changed, and in 1862 they finally received full citizenship. This equality finally enabled them to choose their profession freely, to pursue crafts and agriculture, and to be admitted to the common (right to use communal meadows and firewood, as well as the right to poor relief). Previously, they could only trade in second-hand goods and livestock, and a few could also lend money. In the municipality Jürger Bürger founded several cigar factories and in Langenbrücken was the Möbelfirma Basnizki an important economic factor.
1875 reached the Jüdische Bevölkerungsanteil in Mingolsheim 77 people (3.9% of a total of 1972 inhabitants), in Langenbrücken moved at that time the first Jüdische family. The Jüdische Bürger lived mainly from the cattle, hops and grain trade.
An facilities there was a synagogue, a Jüdische religious school, a ritual bath, and from 1878 its own cemetery.
Due to the general impoverishment of the small farmers, more and more Jewish inhabitants migrated to the cities.
In 1933, 14 Jewish residents still lived in Mingolsheim and eight in Langenbrücken. With the Nazi seizure of power, the boycott began throughout Germany and with it the systematic disenfranchisement, exclusion, criminalization and dispossession of the Jewish population. The increasing repressive measures forced them to leave their homeland. Most emigrated to Argentina, France, the USA and Plästina.
The last five Jüdische inhabitants, for whom escape was not possible, were deported to Gurs on October 22, 1940.
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