Old Jewish cemetery Rödelheim

View of the Jewish cemetery on the sea dam, which was removed in 1820

The Old Jewish Cemetery Rödelheim is a Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt am Main . Despite desecration, desecration and destruction during the National Socialist era , around 20 tombstones are still preserved there. The cemetery was used from 1740 to the 19th century and today the area is designed as a green area.

In the Middle Ages there was the Rödelheim gallows, which stood on the remains of an earth wall and at that time dammed the Westerbach with a length of about 900 meters to a width of almost 25 meters.

A tombstone at the entrance commemorates Wolf Heidenheim (1757–1832), who was buried there and ran a printing press in Rödelheim.

This oldest Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt-Rödelheim is located between the streets "Am Seedamm", "Wolf-Heidenheim-Straße" and "Zentmarkweg". It is now closed and has a size of 2,724 m².

See also

• Jewish cemeteries in Frankfurt am Main
• List of cultural monuments in Frankfurt-Rödelheim

Web links

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

• Jewish cemeteries in Rödelheim on the Alemannia Judaica site

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 57 ″  E