10. Pápa the town of Church buildings Traditional Geocache
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10. Pápa the town of Church buildings
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This will be one of the caches in a series of 10 caches in Pápa.
It is not only by virtue of their seize that these thirteen buildings rise above the homes of the small baroque town. When taking a look at the townscape from a distance, travelers first catch sight of steeples of the churches. It is of a touch absolute serenity that is being radiated by these steeples, no matter what style and period in history they represent. The stones, of which they were built, have witnessed inconceivable depths of time: bloody fights, religious debates and impatience, uplifting and splendid feasts, sermons by outstanding and famous preachers, prayers of monks and nuns, choir of students. They continue to bear witness to the dedicated lives of the landlords who would always sacrifice some of their enormous wealth for them. These church buildings are testimony to a history living with us. They hide secrets. The true spirit of Pápa can only be sensed through the stories of these buildings. We will bring you to all these churches!
Zsinagóga (The Synagogue)
A few Jewish families first settled in Pápa under the protection of the Esterházy family; by 1714 the first synagogue was built. At that time the tax collector of the city was a Jew. A new synagogue was built in 1743. In 1748 Count F. Esterházy authorized Jews to settle in Pápa and organize a community. A Bikkur Holim society was founded in 1770. The first Jewish private school was opened in 1812, and the community school, founded in 1826, had 504 pupils in 1841. In 1899 the first junior high school was founded. The synagogue erected in 1846 was an important step towards the introduction of Reform: space was left for an organ although none was installed; the bimah was set in front of the Ark and not in the centre of the synagogue. After the religious schism in Hungarian Jewry in 1869 the Neologits left the community, but returned five years later. During the Tiszaeszlar blood libel case (1882) anti-Jewish riots broke out in Pápa but they were suppressed by the authorities.
The first rabbi of the community was Bernard Isaac, followed by Selig Bettelheim. The Orthodox rabbi Paul (Feiwel) Horwitz initiated the meeting of rabbis in Paks in 1844. Leopold Loew (1846-50) was the first rabbi to introduce Reform. Moritz Klein, rabbi from 1876 to 1880, translated part of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed into Hungarian. He was followed by Solomon Breuer (1880-83). The last rabbi was J. Haberfeld, who perished with his congregation in the Holocaust.
Two months after the Germans occupied Hungary on 19 March 1944, the Jews of Pápa were confined in a ghetto. On 4 and 5 July of that year, 2,565 Jews were sent to Auschwitz; only 500 returned. After the 1956 revolution, most of the community left; by 1989, only a handful of Jews remained in the town. The beautiful classic synagogue lies in disrepair.
The cache is a NANO!! so bring your own pen! The Synagoge is in the street near the cache.
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