Jewish cemetery (Allersheim)

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Jewish cemetery in Allersheim
Blessing priestly hands of the Kohanim

The Allersheim Jewish Cemetery in Allersheim , a district of the market town of Giebelstadt in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg , covers an area of ​​166.2 acres .

About 4000 burials took place in the cemetery , south of Allersheim, today there are still about 1575 tombstones ( Mazewot ).

history

Already for the year 1608 can be found in the Memorial Book of Aub a mention of Allersheimer Jewish cemetery. In May 1665, the Bronnbach monastery sold the Allersheim Jews for a purchase price of 20 Reichstaler Franconian national currency a "desolate field" of almost two acres , which "does nothing for the closter without it". The cemetery became an association cemetery for 20 Jewish communities .

The administrator of the Bronnbacher Hof and the community of Allersheim received a fee for each burial carried out in the cemetery. In the event of a dispute, the local clergy were given the opportunity to close the cemetery.

An evaluation of the grave list of the Allersheimer Friedhof carried out in the 1990s showed that around a tenth of the Jews who were buried here between 1779 and 1810 were without property without a right of home . The Jewish community of Allersheim also had to pay fees for their burial according to the gate customs regulations.

The cemetery was expanded in 1813, 1820 and 1844. The Tahara House , built in 1844, was replaced by a new building that was inaugurated on January 20, 1929.

The last burial carried out in the cemetery was that of Otto Mannheimer in 1967. In the past few decades, even after 1945, the cemetery fell victim to several desecrations. For example, 19 tombstones were knocked over in April 1936.

Occupancy

Numerous communities in a wide area brought their dead here until their own cemeteries were established in several of these places or other cemeteries were also used: Acholshausen , Allersheim , Aub (until 1700), Bütthard , Dittigheim , Fuchsstadt , Gaukönigshofen , Geroldshausen , Giebelstadt , Goßmannsdorf , Grünsfeld , Heidingsfeld (until 1810), Höchberg (until 1821), Impfingen Kirchheim , Messelhausen , Obernbreit , Reichenberg , Rottenbauer , Segnitz , Sommerhausen , Tauberrettersheim , Winterhausen and Würzburg .

See also

literature

  • Ludwig Engert: Chronicle of the market town of Allersheim . Wuerzburg 1993.
  • Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, pp. 10–15, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 (with many photos)

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Engert 1993: 96

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 18.2 "  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 13.1"  E