Jewish community in Frauenberg

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Jewish cemetery in Frauenberg

A Jewish community in Frauenberg in the Moselle department in the French region of Lorraine had existed since the 18th century at the latest.

history

In 1753 several Jewish families are mentioned in Frauenberg . After Lorraine became part of France, a royal decree of 1779 allowed 22 Jewish families to settle in Frauenberg.

graveyard

The Jewish cemetery in Frauenberg is located below the ruins of Frauenberg Castle on a slope. The cemetery, built around 1740, served the Jews in the surrounding valley of the Blies as a burial place. The Jews from the nearby city of Sarreguemines were also buried here until Sarreguemines received its own Jewish cemetery in 1899. In 1840, 1869 and 1903 the cemetery in Frauenberg was expanded. Today numerous gravestones ( Mazevot ) have sunk into the ground and many are in danger of falling over.

literature

  • Henry Schumann: Mémoire des communautés juives de Moselle . Éditions Serpenoise, Metz 1999, ISBN 2-87692-430-7 .

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