Marriage stone

The wedding stone (also Traustein or Chuppastein ) is a befindlicher synagogues stone for the ritual smashing of glasses at Jewish weddings. The breaking of a glass is a still generally lived tradition to commemorate the devastated Jerusalem temple. The wedding party calls " mazel tov ", transferred meaning " good luck ", but literally " lucky star " means. Wedding stones usually show therefore a star, often at the center the letters MT for Masel Tov, further customary labels come from Jeremiah 7, 34 and 33.11: voice of exultation, voice of gladness, voice of the bridegroom, voice of the bride.

Such stones have been preserved in many places. In Hochberg in the district of Würzburg is a wedding stone of 1660 / 1661. Another from Altenkunstadt in the district of Lichtenfels, Upper Franconia is dated in 1726. A Traustein in Wilhermsdorf comes from 1736th The Stone of Aufhausen dated 1824. The wedding stone of the synagogue Hein home ( in a district of Bad Rappenau in the district of Heilbronn) dates from 1796th In its center is carved a star of David with the usual Hebrew letters. One of the largest and best preserved wedding rocks in southwest Germany is located at the Old Synagogue in Epping. The as colored stone with eight star and attached rosette on the facade of the building escaped its destruction, because it the building owner had covered the period of National Socialism with a shutter. A wedding stone is also located above the portal of spared in the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938 Weisenau synagogue in Mainz- Weisenau.

Wedding stone of the synagogue Hein Home

• Festivals and traditions (Judaism )
• Wedding custom