Old Jewish Cemetery (Miltenberg)

Old Jewish Cemetery

The Old Jewish Cemetery Miltenberg is one of two Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia Miltenberg , the county town of the same district in the administrative district of Lower Franconia . The cemetery is 17.2 ares in size and is located on the southeastern city wall of the town.

The other Jewish cemetery in Miltenberg is the New Jewish Cemetery at Klausrain.

history

Tombstones

There is historical evidence that there was a medieval Jewish cemetery in Miltenberg as early as 1336 , but it is not known where it was.

Burials may have been carried out in the old cemetery as early as the 15th century. The report by the teacher of the Jewish school from 1927 suggests that the cemetery was used in the 16th or 17th centuries. According to his note, the oldest tombstone that was still legible at that time dates from 1812.

When the cemetery was fully occupied towards the end of the 19th century, the New Jewish Cemetery of Miltenberg was built in what is now the Bergstrasse Odenwald Nature Park.

literature

• Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, pp. 128-133, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 (with many photos)

Web links

Commons : Old Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jewish cemetery of Miltenberg near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
• The central archive for researching the history of Jews in Germany via the Jewish cemetery in Miltenberg
• The House of Bavarian History on the Jewish cemetery in Miltenberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/aj/FRIEDHOF/Bayern/f-bayern.htm#Miltenberg_(Mittelalterlicher_Friedhof)

Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 59.5 ″  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 25.9 ″  E