ShtetLinks: FLOSS     In German spelled as Floß View the location of FLOSS (49°44' 12°17') via Mapquest

Modern day Floß is still a Market Town a few miles from the Czechoslovakia border in the Oberpfalz region of Northern Bavaria.
For more information from the town of Floss home page click here - https://www.floss.de/geschichte_jaedischegeschichte.htm

BREAKING NEWS June 2021 - A document with the history of the Jewish Community of Floss was discovered in the papers
of a Floss descendant has been translated and is now available here in the background section below.

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Map used by permission from Town of Floss brochure

Click here for a newly discoverd history of Floss, author unknown. The original was in a handwritten notebook found in Bella Langermann Thannhauser's papers. Her mother was born in Floss. The crossouts have been preserved but still shown. This has been typed up, translated, and put in this lovely format by Anuschka Tomat and Helen Brandshaft.

The Commission of the Greater Main River Area requested all the Jews from Floss to appear for a meeting on April 26, 1814 where Jews were required to take last names. Those who had family names already kept them. (e.g. Bloch, Bomeisler, and Boscowitz ). The others took on German family names. Everybody had to register their names. Before then, each man was known by his name and the name of his father.

Sixty-four families were entered into the records and sixty-four remained the number allowed which could not be exceeded. " [translated and condensed from Renate Höpfinger, Die Judengemeinde von Floss, 1684-1942 ]

View of Floss photographed by Ralf Rossmeissl in 2004

Höpfinger, Renate.

Die Judengemeinde von Floss, 1684-1942 : die Geschichte einer judischen Landgemeinde in Bayern . Kallmunz Opf. : M. Lassleben, 1993.

Series title: Regensburger historische Forschungen ; Bd. 14. UCB Main DS135.G4 F544 1993

English title: The Jewish community of Floss, 1684-1942: the history of a rural Jewish community in Bavaria (not available in English)

Mormon Family History microfilm: Europe 1194062,

About 20 years of records (births 1813 to 1833) and some marriages and other records are item 3 on this film, available from any of the LDS family history centers.

• Report showing five generations of descendants of Feifas
• Schutzbrief for Löw Aaron Hennoch (Hönig) from 1813
• another Schutzbrief for Löw Aaron Hennoch (Hönig)

• The Cemetery
• Family Portrait Galleries
  • Doppelmayer
  • Langermann
• The Town of Floss
  • Main St Area
  • Judenberg - the hill where the Jewish Community lived
  • Town Hall (the Rathaus with David Bloch's painting of Floss)
  • Surrounding Scenery
• The Synagogue

• Most of the genealogical information for the families of Floss is posted on the Jewishgen web site in their family tree of the Jewish people

• JewishGen Family Finder (for FLOSS)

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