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Permanent
exhibition "Jews in Buttenhausen"
in the Bernheimer´sche Realschule
Zwiefalter Str. 30
72525 Münsingen-Buttenhausen
Germany
Open: April to October – every
Sunday, 2 Pm
to 5 Pm
or by appointment (please use contact information listed below.)
"Juden in Buttenhausen"
(Jews in Buttenhausen, text in German),
Accompanying book, published by the city of Münsingen (third in a
series of works from the Muensingen City Archive), 2nd Edition, Muensingen, 2004. 104 pages, numerous
illustrations, Map included.
Cost: 10,00
Euro.
Imprints and Artifacts
Catalogue (german-english) by Diane Samuels, Pittsburgh 2002. 45 pages.
Numerous illustrations.
Orders in the US: Diane Samuels, 330 Sampsonia way, Pittsburgh / PA -
15212
Cost: 15,- Euro.
Orders and further
information:
Stadtverwaltung
Muensingen
Altes Rathaus
Marktplatz 1
D-72525, Muensingen
Tel.: 0049/7381/182115
FAX 0049/7381/182215
e-mail: touristinfo@muensingen.de
Pre-World War II Buttenhausen was one of the few
rural villages in southern Wuerttemberg with a centuries-old Jewish
community. It began on July 7, 1787 when the regional ruler, Philipp
Friedrich, Baron of Liebenstein, allowed 25 Jewish families to settle
in this village on the Lauter river. In the decades which followed, a
larger community developed, and by the mid 1800s comprised more than
half of the village´s entire population. The Jews differed from
their Christian neighbours not only in religion, but also in culture
and occupations. Jewish tradesmen and entrepreneurs brought
technological innovations and prosperity to Buttenhausen. Despite their
differences, both groups co-existed peacefully for 140 years. Towards
the end of the 19th century an increasing number of Jewish
residents moved away from Buttenhausen to cities, but they did not lose
connections to their native town. The destruction of the Jewish
community started with the beginning of the National Socialist tyranny
in 1933. Of the 89 Jewish citizens remaining Buttenhausen 1933, many
did not survive the Nazi regime. After the outbreak of World War II,
many residents of the Jewish nursing home in Heilbronn-Sontheim were
transferred to Buttenhausen, and later deported to concentration
camps.
Since 1945 there have been numerous private and
public initiatives, by both Jews and Christians, to keep the memory of the once rich Jewish community alive.
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