Jewish cemetery (Wilhermsdorf)

Jewish cemetery in Wilhermsdorf, older part, 2011

Jewish cemetery in Wilhermsdorf, gravestones from the beginning of the 20th century, 2011

Gravestone for the teacher Baruch Frei (1843–1907), 2011

The Jewish cemetery Wilhermsdorf is a Jewish cemetery near Wilhermsdorf in the Middle Franconian district of Fürth .

description

The 3,950 m² cemetery is surrounded by a brick wall and is located on a hill on the FÜ18 district road between the Lenzenhaus and the owl screaming . There are still about 500 mazewot left . Many of the tombstones are already badly weathered because they were made of sandstone . The gravestones are mainly from the 18th to early 20th century. The dead from the neighboring communities of Dietenhofen and Markt Erlbach were also buried in the cemetery.

history

It is believed that the cemetery was laid out in the middle of the 15th century, because a document from 1842 reports a tombstone from 5212. The oldest surviving and legible tombstone dates from 1690.

A Chewra Kadisha has existed since 1862 . At the request of the Jewish community, the local council decided on December 15, 1863: “Considering that the piece of common land in question is of no use to the Jewish religious community. without leaving anything in return ”. The expansion took place in 1865. The last burial took place on April 8, 1936. The cemetery was desecrated in 1938 and 1945.

Death register

The first entry in the death register kept by the district rabbi Isaak Loewi is the funeral of Abraham Michael Wiener, who died on January 3, 1824 on January 4, 1824. The death register was continued until the last burial in the cemetery on April 8, 1936. On April 5, 1936, the cattle dealer Gottlieb died at the age of 70 after serving two weeks in prison for insulting a local police officer.

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• House of Bavarian History: Wilhermsdorf in Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria
• Alemannia Judaica: On the history of the cemetery
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria . Ed .: Bavarian State Center for Political Education in cooperation with the Bavarian Publishing House Bamberg. 2nd Edition. Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0 , p. 199-200 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Michael Trüger: Wilhermsdorf. Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria. (No longer available online.) In: The regional association of Israelite cultural communities in Bavaria. Archived from the original on April 12, 2016 ; Retrieved on May 1, 2011 (According to the Central Archives for Research into the History of Jews in Germany, the articles in the series of articles were made available in a slightly revised form on the regional association's website). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
2. ^ JM Fuchs: About the first settlements of the Jews in Middle Franconia . In. General newspaper of Judaism . 1842.

Remarks

1. ↑ The year 5212 of the Jewish calendar corresponds to the year 1451 or 1452 of the Gregorian calendar .

Web links

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

• Wilhermsdorf . In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Bavaria. Editor: Felicitas Grützmann, Central Archive for Research into the History of Jews in Germany , 2010

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 34 "  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 41"  E