Höchberg is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Würzburg
Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River.
Würzburg ...
in
Bavaria
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,
Germany
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. Höchberg borders, in the east, directly on the city of Würzburg. Höchberg consists of two main urban areas: Altort and Hexenbruch. Residential construction areas have been added in recent years, for example "Mehle"
and " Mehle II".
History
The earliest recorded official reference to Höchberg dates from 748.
Jewish families resided in Höchberg at least since the late 1600s. They established a Jewish cemetery and erected a synagogue in 1721, which was plundered in the November pogrom in 1938 by SA members. Since 1951, the building has served as a
Protestant church
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. Today, a plaque at the church entry and a monument at the Jewish cemetery commemorate these facts.
[Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Eine Dokumentation, Band 1. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn 1995, , S. 147]
Notable residents
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Kurt Pompe Kurt Bruno Pompe (March 4, 1899 in Schmiedeberg, Lower Silesia, German Empire – August 1, 1964 in Schweinfurt, West Germany) occupied important positions in several forced labor camps for Jews in Silesia (German until 1945) during World War II, p ...
(1899–1964), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
References
Würzburg (district)
Holocaust locations in Germany
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