Editing Göppingen (section)

===Jewish community===
Göppingen and the nearby village of Jebenhausen were home to a thriving Jewish community from 1777 until the Second World War.  In 1777, the Baron von Liebenstein issued a "Letter of Protection" granting Elias Gutmann and other Jews permission to settle in Jebenhausen.  The community grew and peaked in the mid-1800s, with the population center shifting from Jebenhausen to Göppingen and a substantial emigration of Jewish families to America by the late 19th Century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edjewnet.de/spuren/index_en.htm |title=The Search for Traces: Jews in Jebenhausen and Göppingen |access-date=2012-02-28}}</ref> The Göppingen synagogue, constructed in 1881, was destroyed during the [[Kristallnacht]] from 9–10 November 1938.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edjewnet.de/inparis/in_paris.htm |title=Die Reichspogromnacht in Göppingen |access-date=2012-02-28}}</ref> Detailed records of the communities were collected by Rabbi Dr. Aron Tänzer, who served the community from 1907-1937, and who was also a driving force behind the establishment of the secular city library in Göppingen.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edjewnet.de/taenzer/taenzer_en.htm |title=Rabbi Dr. Aron Tänzer |access-date=2012-02-28}}</ref> A comprehensive Jewish community history, ''Die Geschichte der Juden in Jebenhausen und Göppingen'', was first produced by Tänzer in 1927, on the 150th anniversary of the settlement of Jebenhausen, and re-released in 1988 by the city of Göppingen with updated material added by Karl-Heinz Ruess.<ref>{{cite book |title=Die Geschichte der Juden in Jebenhausen und Göppingen |oclc = 19684510}}</ref>  The Jewish Museum in Jebenhausen, opened in 1992, documents and preserves the history of the Jewish community of Jebenhausen and Göppingen.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edjewnet.de/jewmuseum/jmus_en.htm |title=The Jewish Museum in Jebenhausen |access-date=2012-02-28}}</ref>