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Place in Germany

What happened to the Jews in Hesse

83 events, 1235 AD to 2012 AD

13th century

  1. 1235 AD Blood libel in Fulda, Germany · Fulda, Germany
  2. 1235 AD Crusaders massacre Jews of Fulda · Fulda, Germany
  3. 1238 AD Blood libel against the Jews of Fulda · Fulda, Germany
  4. 1238 AD Massacre of Jews in Fulda after blood libel · Fulda, Germany
  5. 1241 AD Frankfurt riot kills 180 Jews · Frankfurt, Germany
  6. 1241 AD Pogrom in Frankfurt · Frankfurt, Germany
  7. c. 1290–1299 AD Persecution of Jews at Frankenberg and Geismar · Frankenberg, Germany

14th century

  1. 1301 AD Taxes of Jews of Fulda diocese pledged to the abbot · Fulda, Germany
  2. 1309 AD Massacre of Jews in Fulda blamed for plague · Fulda, Germany
  3. 1310 AD Henry VII transfers authority over Jews to the abbot · Fulda, Germany
  4. 1348 AD Persecution of Jews at Wolfshagen during the Black Death · Wolfhagen, Germany
  5. 1348–1349 AD Annihilation of Marburg Jewish community in Black Death persecutions · Marburg, Germany
  6. 1348–1349 AD Black Death persecutions of Jews in Kassel · Kassel, Germany
  7. 1349 AD Black Death massacre of Jews in Fulda · Fulda, Germany
  8. 1349 AD Destruction of Hanau Jewish community in Black Death persecutions · Hanau, Germany
  9. 1349 AD Destruction of the Jews of Frankfurt · Frankfurt, Germany
  10. 1349 AD Wetzlar Jews suffer in Black Death persecutions · Wetzlar, Germany
  11. 1399 AD Readmission of Jews to Fulda · Fulda, Germany

15th century

  1. c. 1450 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Marburg · Marburg, Germany
  2. 1452 AD Demolition of Marburg synagogue and loss of cemetery · Marburg, Germany
  3. 1462 AD Jews forced to settle outside the old city walls · Frankfurt, Germany

16th century

  1. 1504 AD Ritual libel at Frankfurt · Frankfurt, Germany
  2. 1505 AD Frankfurt magistrate withdraws right to bury outside Jews' dead · Frankfurt, Germany
  3. 1510 AD Confiscation of Hebrew books in Frankfurt · Frankfurt, Germany
  4. 1523 AD Decree expelling Jews from Marburg · Marburg, Germany
  5. 1524 AD Philip the Magnanimous expels Jews from Hesse · Hesse, Germany
  6. 1532 AD Duke Philip abolishes decree and permits Jewish residence · Marburg, Germany
  7. 1539 AD Expulsion of Jews from Nauheim · Bad Nauheim, Germany
  8. 1539 AD Philip the Magnanimous's decree on conversion and synagogues · Hesse, Germany
  9. 1543–1554 AD Hessian decree extended; Jews forced to hear Christian sermons · Hesse, Germany
  10. 1544 AD Failed attempt to expel Wetzlar's Jews · Wetzlar, Germany
  11. 1593 AD Wetzlar council orders Jews to renew promissory notes · Wetzlar, Germany
  12. 1598 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Wetzlar · Wetzlar, Germany

17th century

  1. 1603 AD Count Philip Ludwig II grants Jews right of settlement in Hanau · Hanau, Germany
  2. 1604 AD Council orders Jews to produce notes in court · Wetzlar, Germany
  3. 1614 AD Destruction of the synagogue and desecration of the cemetery in Frankfurt · Frankfurt, Germany
  4. 1614 AD Fettmilch Uprising · Frankfurt, Germany
  5. 1614 AD Offenbach fires on expelled Frankfurt Jews · Offenbach am Main, Germany
  6. 1614 AD Pillaging of the Frankfurt ghetto · Frankfurt, Germany
  7. 1614–1616 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Frankfurt · Frankfurt, Germany
  8. 1616 AD Jews readmitted to Frankfurt under imperial protection · Frankfurt, Germany
  9. 1616 AD Vincenz Fettmilch executed in Frankfurt · Frankfurt, Germany
  10. c. 1618–1648 AD Jews compelled to leave Kassel during Thirty Years' War · Kassel, Germany
  11. 1649 AD Compulsory conversion sermons for Cassel Jews · Kassel, Germany
  12. 1649 AD Imprisonment of Jews and expulsion of rabbi for missing sermon · Kassel, Germany
  13. 1651 AD Conversion sermons reduced to six a year · Kassel, Germany
  14. 1659 AD Cap on Jewish interest rates in Wetzlar · Wetzlar, Germany
  15. 1661 AD Jews barred from importing tobacco into Wetzlar · Wetzlar, Germany
  16. 1671 AD Expulsion of the Jews from the Fulda district · Fulda, Germany
  17. 1673 AD Nightly ducat tax on unprivileged Jews renewed · Kassel, Germany
  18. 1677 AD Expulsion of the Jewish community of Fulda · Fulda, Germany
  19. 1699 AD Regulations restricting Jewish trade in Fulda · Fulda, Germany

18th century

  1. 1711 AD Rabbi Naphtali Cohen accused of causing the Judengasse fire · Frankfurt, Germany
  2. 1711–1717 AD Frankfurt magistrate restricts the rebuilt ghetto · Frankfurt, Germany
  3. 1712 AD Wetzlar Jewish residents reduced to twelve families · Wetzlar, Germany
  4. 1732 AD Countess Charlotte restricts Jewish religious life and moneylending · Wiesbaden, Germany
  5. 1751 AD Poll-tax on Jews fixed · Kassel, Germany
  6. 1766 AD Jews ordered to dwell in city during fairs; housing restrictions · Kassel, Germany
  7. 1773 AD Jews' street laid out in Cassel · Kassel, Germany
  8. 1775 AD Jews allowed to keep open shops in Cassel · Kassel, Germany
  9. 1776 AD Jews forced back into the Frankfurt ghetto · Frankfurt, Germany
  10. 1796 AD Frankfurt Jews allowed to live among Christians · Frankfurt, Germany
  11. 1796 AD French bombardment destroys Jewish houses in Frankfurt · Frankfurt, Germany

19th century

  1. 1803 AD Napoleonic reforms ease restrictions on Jews in Wetzlar · Wetzlar, Germany
  2. 1806 AD Jews allowed to live anywhere in Hanau · Hanau, Germany
  3. 1811 AD Prince-primate grants Frankfurt Jews full civic equality · Frankfurt, Germany
  4. 1816 AD Jews excluded from Frankfurt municipal government · Frankfurt, Germany
  5. 1820 AD Jews barred from Altstadt main streets and Oberneustadt · Kassel, Germany
  6. 1853 AD Civic rights of Frankfurt Jews enlarged · Frankfurt, Germany
  7. 1864 AD All restrictions on Frankfurt Jews removed · Frankfurt, Germany
  8. 1866 AD Full emancipation of Hanau Jews · Hanau, Germany
  9. 1866 AD Prussian emancipation laws applied in Kassel · Kassel, Germany

20th century

  1. 1938 AD Boycott of Jewish businesses in Frankfurt · Frankfurt, Germany
  2. 1938 AD Burning of the Fulda synagogue · Fulda, Germany
  3. 1938 AD Synagogues of Wiesbaden burned · Wiesbaden, Germany
  4. 1940 AD Destruction of the Fulda Jewish cemetery · Fulda, Germany
  5. 1941 AD Deportation of Fulda Jews to Riga · Fulda, Germany
  6. 1941–1942 AD Deportation of Marburg Jews · Marburg, Germany
  7. 1941–1942 AD Deportations of Kassel Jews to Riga, Majdanek and Theresienstadt · Kassel, Germany
  8. 1942 AD Deportation of Fulda Jews to Theresienstadt and the East · Fulda, Germany
  9. 1942 AD Deportation of Jews from Wiesbaden · Wiesbaden, Germany
  10. 1942 AD Deportation of last Jews of Hanau · Hanau, Germany

21st century

  1. 2006–2012 AD Verstummte Stimmen · Darmstadt, Germany

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