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The rooms were nevertheless insufficient to house all pupils and a separate building was constructed from 1892 to 1895 to house the school boys, while the girls stayed at the town hall. Eventually, two more, larger schools were completed, one in 1957 and 1976. With the completion of the later, the town hall ceased to be required for schooling purposes.
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With the forced departure of the Jews in 1741, the building came into non-Jewish, private possession. In 1853, it was acquired by the town from the brewer Anton Wunderlich, to be used as a school house. For this purpose, the chamber that is now the main council chamber was subdivided into two rooms.
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The prospering community however raised concerns with the local population, which was worried about eventually becoming outnumbered in town. In 1736, restrictions were passed, allowing only a limited number of weddings to be conducted by the local Jews at considerable cost. In 1741, Duke
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The ceilings on the second floor can be visited free of charge during the opening hours of the town hall, provided no marriages or council meetings take place in the rooms at the time.
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style. It was a square three-story building which was richly decorated, especially the ceilings. The main room on the second floor, now the council chambers, depict
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since 1715, but this has since been disproven. Nothing is left of the former synagogue, which was located in the nearby building that later became the guest house
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and to work as merchants in town. In the following years, the community grew considerably, numbering 19 families and 150 people by 1737.
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The ceiling, long hidden, was only restored in 1978. Two more ceilings, also on the second floor, were restored in 1994. One depicts
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The location of the current town hall was acquired by Abraham Elias Model in 1712 from Ferdinand Kugler for 1,025
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The new building, which was referred to in the local town chronicles as "very precious", was built in
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For a time it was assumed that the house also functioned as a synagogue, Monheim having had a
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The building, constructed from 1714 to 1720 for a rich Jewish merchant, the
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The Jewish community in Monheim was established in 1697, when Duke
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Ceiling of the main council chamber: Jacob dreaming of the
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allowed six Jewish families which had been banned from
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David
harp
Town hall
Baroque
Monheim
Germany
Coordinates
48°50′N 10°50′E / 48.833°N 10.833°E / 48.833; 10.833
German
Monheim
Bavaria
Germany
Court Jew
ceilings
Old Testament
Tanakh
Johann Wilhelm
Eichstätt
Synagogue
Charles III Philip
Palatinate-Neuburg
Gulden
Baroque
Abraham
Isaac
Hebrew
Book of Genesis
Moses
Ten Commandments

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