Jewish cemetery (Bad Orb)
The Jewish cemetery Bad Orb is a Jewish cemetery in Bad Orb , a town in the Main-Kinzig district ( Hesse ). The cemetery at the end of Rhönstrasse is a protected cultural monument . Today it is surrounded by a new development area.
history
The Jewish community in Orb received in 1725 from the town of Orb land at Upper Gate, outside the city walls, to the application of a cemetery. After long negotiations between the city and the Jewish community, this cemetery was closed for sanitary reasons in 1838. In 1841 the Jewish community of Orb joined the cemetery association of the Jewish cemetery in Aufenau . Their dead were buried there until the construction of the new Jewish cemetery in Bad Orb in the early 1930s.
The Jewish cemetery in Bad Orb covers 7.85 ares . There were eleven burials by 1935. The eleven tombstones ( mazewot ) made of black granite with Hebrew and German inscriptions have been preserved.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
- Waltraud Friedrich: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Main-Kinzig district II.2. Gelnhausen, Gründau, Hasselroth, Jossgrund, Linsengericht, Wächtersbach. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Theiss, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2469-6 , p. 139 ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ).
Web links
- Jewish cemetery Bad Orb near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 9 ° 20 ′ 52.7 ″ E