Jewish cemetery (Abterode)

Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Abterode , a district of the Meißner community in the Werra-Meißner district of Hesse , was laid out in the middle of the 17th century. The cemetery is about 200 meters from the outskirts on the right-hand side of the extended Rehbergstrasse.

Before that, the Jews who died in Abterode were buried in the cemetery in Jestädt . The dead of the following Jewish communities were also buried in the Jewish cemetery in Abterode: Allendorf , Frankershausen , Germerode and Vockerode .

In the 49.03 ares large cemetery there are still 491 tombstones from the period 1659 to 1936.

See also

• Jewish community of Abterode
• Synagogue (Abterode)

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 ).

Web links

• Jewish graves in Abterode .  Jewish graves in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Abterode Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica (with 16 photos)

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '25.2 "  N , 9 ° 55' 53.8"  E