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Jewish Community
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Jewish Community
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Jewish community Speyer
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The Jewish community of Speyer was one of the important Jewish communities of the empire in the Middle Ages and in the earlier modern period.
Jewish community Lieser
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A Jewish community in Lieser, a local community in the Rhine-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate, existed as early as the 17th century. The Jewish community was destroyed by the National Socialist persecution.
Jewish community Mogendorf
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The Jewish community in Mogendorf was a Jewish community in Mogendorf in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Jewish community Puderbach
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The Jewish community in Puderbach in the district of Neuwied (Rhineland-Palatinate) was a Jewish community whose roots date back to the Middle Ages. The Jewish community became extinct in 1938/40 in the course of the deportation of German Jews during the National Socialist era.
Jewish community Westerburg
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The Jewish community in Westerburg in the Westerwaldkreis (Rhineland-Palatinate) was a Jewish community whose roots date back to the Middle Ages. The Jewish community became extinct in 1940 in the course of the deportation of German Jews during the National Socialist era.
Bad Driburg
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Bad Driburg (until 1919 Driburg) is a town in the district of Höxter in the east of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Federal Republic of Germany. The city of about 18,500 inhabitants is located on the eastern steep slope of the Egge Mountains in the Teutoburg Forest / Egge Mountains Nature Park. Bad Driburg is known for its spa, the Gräflichen Park, glass production and wholesale, and carbonic acid industry.
Jewish community Selters
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The Jewish community in Selters in the Westerwald district (Rhineland-Palatinate) presumably arose in the 17th century through the settlement of Schutzjuden by the local rulers. It experienced a gradual decline due to emigration in the second half of the 19th century. The Jewish community became extinct in the course of the deportation of German Jews during the National Socialist era.
Jewish Community Bielefeld
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The first documentary mention of the settlement of Jews dates from 1345. It is mentioned that Count of Ravensberg had pledged property and dues to the Bielefeld canon Gottfried de Blomenberge, including the annual dues of the Jews in Bielefeld.
During the plague pogroms in the Middle Ages, the Jews were driven out of Bielefeld, in some places there were bloody massacres. Only on February 12, 1370, the Count of Ravensberg, Wilhelm von Jülich, allowed the Jews to return to their homeland under the protection of their sovereign.
Religions in Bonn
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Historically, Bonn, like the entire Rhineland, has been Roman Catholic. In the 20th century, the denominational affiliation of Bonn's population changed considerably. While in 1925 more than 80 percent of the inhabitants were still Roman Catholics, by the end of the 1990s the proportion had almost halved. On December 31, 2015, 36.3 percent of residents professed Roman Catholicism and 20.3 percent the Protestant faith.
Jewish community Brilon
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Jewish life in Brilon in the Hochsauerlandkreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, can be traced back to the 13th century. The Jewish community of Brilon existed from the 17th century until 1943.