Jewish cemetery (Pappenheim)

Jewish cemetery in Pappenheim

The Pappenheim Jewish cemetery in Pappenheim , a town in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia , was built in the Middle Ages . The cemetery is located at the end of town in the direction of Weißenburg or Treuchtlingen on a steep mountain slope.

history

The Jewish cemetery in Pappenheim was probably created in the 14th century. Whether it was located on the present site at the time cannot be determined with any certainty. The oldest surviving tombstone ( Mazewa ) is from 1687. In the newer part of the cemetery there is still the Tahara house . The newer lower part of the cemetery was documented as early as 1822. The older and the newer part of the cemetery together have an area of ​​52.33 acres .

The Jewish communities of the following places buried their dead in Pappenheim: Berolzheim , Ellingen , Gundelsheim , Regensburg (until 1822) and Treuchtlingen .

The cemetery was almost completely destroyed during the November pogroms in 1938 and the gravestones were used as building material by the townspeople. The newer part was badly damaged by the extension of the Bürgermeister-Rukwid-Straße, which had already separated the old from the new part of the cemetery. In 1940 three barracks were built on the site and the remaining area was used as a playground.

In 1950 the remaining tombstones were brought back to the cemetery and a memorial stone was erected with the following text: God's field, your fruit means peace. Israelite cemetery since the 11th century. The tombs were removed during the Third Reich. Remaining monuments were rebuilt there when the newer cemetery was repaired by the Bavarian State Government in 1950 .

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ).
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Published by the Bavarian State Center for Political Education in Munich. Bayerische Verlags-Anstalt, Bamberg 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Pappenheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Jewish cemetery in Pappenheim near Alemannia Judaica
• The Jewish cemetery in Pappenheim at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• The Jewish cemetery in Pappenheim by the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jüdisch Historischer Verein Augsburg: The Jewish cemeteries of Pappenheim
2. ^ Jüdisch Historischer Verein Augsburg: The Jewish cemeteries of Pappenheim

Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '14.3 "  N , 10 ° 58' 20.4"  E