Heřmanův Městec

Geobox | Settlement
name = Heřmanův Městec
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category = Town


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region = Pardubice
region_type = Region
district = Chrudim
district_type = District
commune = Chrudim
municipality = Heřmanův Městec
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elevation = 280
lat_d = 49
lat_m = 56
lat_s = 51
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long_m = 40
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area = 14.34
area_round = 2
population = 4995
population_date = 2006-08-28
population_density = auto
established = 1325
established_type = First mentioned
mayor = Aleš Jiroutek
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commons = Heřmanův Městec
statistics = [http://www.statnisprava.cz/ebe/ciselniky.nsf/i/571385 statnisprava.cz]
website = [http://www.hermanuv-mestec.cz/ www.hermanuv-mestec.cz]
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Heřmanův Městec (IPA2|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.

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.

References

:JewishEncyclopedia::by Gotthard Deutsch & Nehemias Kranberg

Nearby municipalities

* Chrudim
* Pardubice
* Choltice, Lipoltice, Prachovice, Ronov nad Doubravou, Slatiňany, Čáslav

External links

* [http://www.hermanuv-mestec.cz/?page=english Municipal website] (cs, en, de)
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=625&letter=H Jewish Encyclopedia]