Jewish Community

The postcard from Rabbi Grünfeld and wife to Hannah Stein was sent from Augsburg on August 23, 1928. The sender of the card was Rabbi Richard Grünfeld and his wife Cäcilie Lilli Grünfeld née Stein. The recipient of the card was the niece Hannah Stein, who was probably in Stetten am kalten Markt at that time for a course at the Hochschule für Leibesübungen. The card is mostly written in Hebrew, only the last lines are a greeting from Cäcilie Lilli Grünfeld to her niece. 

Gabriel Michelbacher was a member of the Israelite Religious Administration for over 44 years. From 1884  he was a board member of the Israelite Kultusverwaltung for 33 years. In 1909 Gabriel Michelbacher celebrated his 25th anniversary as a Kultusvorstand of the Israelite community.

The pictures are taken from the "Verzeichnis der in der Hochfürstlichen Residenzstadt Oettingen unter der Juden-Gemeinde in dem verflossenen 1800. Jahr Neugebohrenen, Copulierten und Verstorbenen"

Feist Strauß, born on December 17, 1834 in Kleinheubach, was the son of teacher Wolff Strauß and Karoline Wolff, née Goldschmidt. After studying at the school teachers' seminary in Würzburg, Feist Strauß taught first at two private posts in Eltville and Geldern and then at the elementary school in Obermoschel. In 1868, he then took up the post of teacher, religion teacher and cantor in Oettingen, where he had been active for many years.

The Jewish community of Lauchheim hired a teacher to take care of religious duties, who was also active as a prayer leader and shochet. Hermann Uhlmann exercised this office from 1859-1900.

Pappenheimer was a teacher at the Jewish school in Lauchheim in the period before 1889. In addition to his teaching activities, he was also active as a prayer leader and shochet in the Jewish community.

1967 counted the community (the city with the entire government district of Osnabrück) only 64 members (25 lived in the city itself).
Despite all the difficulties and the small number of members decided the community to Osnabrück build a synagogue and a community center.