Doudleby nad Orlicí - Židovské muzeum v Praze

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Herman Poláček– moved to New York in 1866 ••*K
Markus Rosenfeld – salesman in Prague ••*K
Ignác Schwartz – salesman in > Trutnov ••*K
Jonathan Steiner – salesman in Slatina near Žamberk ••*K
Herman Weissbarth – salesman in > Šumperk ••*K
Another notable native
Herman Rosenfeld (veteran dragoon ) awarded the Military Cross („Armee-Kreuz“)
by Emperor Franz I ••*K
School
after 1840 in house on the lot no. 105, house no. XVIII (later no. XIX), area of lot 44 s 2
(s = six feet): in 1840 the house belonged to Jakob Wltschek, later to the Jewish
community (note: „2 Zimmer Judenschule“) ••BPP,DSK
1856 school in house no. 17 ••SKA
about 1870 a school (with 10 students) is situated in a house belonging to the Jewish
community ••SSJ
1875 after the visit of the district school inspector „the unauthorised and inadequately
maintained school“ had to be closed down ••*L
1890 the religious German school housed in the community house with the ritual bath
was closed down (the German school „was closed down due to the activity of the
Czech-Jewish National Union“) ••*A
Mikvah
„by the bridge, near house no. 52“, originally a wooden house, in 1838 rebuilt „using hard
material“ ••*L
1840-56 (probably before and after) in the „Reinigungshaus“, lot no. 113 (no house
number), belonging to the Jewish community (area of lot 19 s 2 ) ••BPP,DSK
the mikvah was in a community house in which a school was situated until 1890 ••*A
1896-98 a mikvah existed in the Jewish community of > Kostelec nad Orlicí ••KI
[it is not stated whether the mikvah was in Doudleby or Kostelec nad Orlicí]
the existence of a mikvah is not recorded later on ••KI
1999 the location of the mikvah was identified by PhDr Arno Pařík from the Jewish
Museum of Prague
Dormitory for journeyers
in cottage no. 50 there used to be a „herberge“ (from German Herberge) for „begging
Jews passing by“ (at the beginning of the 20 th century it was converted into an inn
owned by František Pavlát) ••*L