Heřmanův Městec
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| Heřmanův Městec | |||
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| Country |  Czech Republic |
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| Region | Pardubice | ||
| District | Chrudim | ||
| Commune | Chrudim | ||
| Municipality | Heřmanův Městec | ||
| Elevation | 280 m (919 ft) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Area | 14.34 km² (5.54 sq mi) | ||
| Population | 4,995 (2006-08-28) | ||
| Density | 348 /km² (901 /sq mi) | ||
| First mentioned | 1325 | ||
| Mayor | Aleš Jiroutek | ||
| Timezone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 538 03 | ||
   Location in the Czech Republic
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| Wikimedia Commons: Heřmanův Městec | |||
| Statistics: statnisprava.cz | |||
| Website: www.hermanuv-mestec.cz | |||
Heřmanův Městec (IPA: [ˈɦɛr̝manu:f ˈmɲɛstɛts]; German: Hermanmiestetz, Hermannstädt(e)l, etc) is a town in Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has ca. 4,800 inhabitants.
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[edit] Jewish Hermanmiestetz
Jews were living there as early as 1509, engaged in commerce and money-lending; but the Jewish community proper dates from 1591. The Jews were confined to a ghetto under the protectorate of the overlords of the city. One of these, Count Johann Wenceslaus Spork, built a synagogue in 1760, which was modernized in 1870. The Jewish parochial school was transformed into a German public school. Since 1891 Hermanmiestetz has been the seat of a district rabbi, the dependent communities being Chrudim, Roubowitz, and Drevikau.
The following have officiated as rabbis in Hermanmiestetz:
- Bunem (d. 1734);
- Selig-Landsteiner (d. 1743);
- Ḥayyim Traub (d. 1790);
- Elias Treitel (d. 1823);
- Samuel Brod (d. 1850);
- Moses Bloch, till 1855 (since 1877 professor at the rabbinical seminary at Budapest);
- Benjamin Feilbogen, till 1863;
- S. Rosenberg, 1864-68;
- Dr. Nehemias Kronberg, the present incumbent, called in 1891.
Judah Löb Borges (d. 1872), a member of the community distinguished for his Talmudic and literary attainments, officiated temporarily whenever there was a vacancy in the rabbinate.
The community supports a burial society, a society for nursing the sick, a Talmud Torah, and a women's society. The cemetery must have existed as early as the sixteenth century; for it is recorded in a document that in 1667 a field was bought from a citizen for the purpose of enlarging the burial-ground. In 1903 the Jews of Hermanmiestetz numbered 300, those of the whole district aggregating 1,100.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
- by Gotthard Deutsch & Nehemias Kranberg
[edit] Nearby municipalities
[edit] External links
- Municipal website (cs, en, de)
- Jewish Encyclopedia
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