Old Jewish Cemetery (Schlüchtern)

The Old Jewish Cemetery Schlüchtern is a cemetery in the town of Schlüchtern in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

View of the cemetery from the east 2016

The 821 m² Jewish cemetery is located on Breitenbacher Straße. There is no information about the number of tombstones .

history

The still existing old cemetery was already in the 12./13. Century burial place of the Jewish community. In 1235 victims of the "Fulda Pogrom" were buried here and in 1349 the victims of the persecution of Jews during the plague in the Schlüchtern office of the Hanau rulership . The oldest part of the cemetery was on the Senses at Röderwasser, near the old Heerstraße of Fulda . Before the Nazi era, there were still many old, largely weathered tombstones in the old cemetery, dating back to the 15th century. After 1945, the greater part of the property was sold by the Jewish asset management company JRSO to the neighboring property owner. A small part of 821 m² remained. In 1949 the preserved part of the cemetery ("Restfriedhof") was renovated; a memorial for 122 Jewish victims of the Nazi era was created. This memorial has now been supplemented by a new one.

Text of the notice board

JEWISH CEMETERY

12./13. Cent. Court of the dead of the Schlüchtern Jews

1235 Burial of the dead of the Fulda pogrom

Resting place of the minstrel Süßkind von Trimberg

1349 burial of the victims of the persecution of the Jews in the Hanau office (Steinau martyrs)

1926 closure of the cemetery

1934 to 1945 destruction of gravestones and the cemetery complex during the Nazi era

1949 renovation of the remaining cemetery and erection of the memorial for 122 Jewish victims of the

National Socialism from the former Schlüchtern district

literature

Paul Arnsberg : The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning - fall - new beginning. Volume II. Published by the regional association of Jewish communities in Hesse, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 1972, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 , p. 279.