Jewish cemetery (Alsfeld)
The Jewish cemetery in Alsfeld , a town in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse , was built in 1878/79. The Jewish cemetery on the Frauenberg , right next to the Christian cemetery, is a protected architectural monument .
history
In 1878/79 the brothers Leopold and Hermann Wallach bought a plot of 2500 m² northeast of the Christian cemetery for the construction of a Jewish cemetery and donated it to the Jewish community of Alsfeld . Until then served the Jewish community of the Jewish cemetery in Angenrod than burial.
The morgue ( Tahara House ) was commissioned by Carl Benscher from Wiesbaden , who had married a daughter from the Wallach family in Alsfeld, and built in 1910 according to the plans of the architect Römhild. The morgue was used by Jews and Christians jointly, with different entrances in separate departments. The grave of the royal land physicist Sally Rothschild († 1888) can be found in the Alsfeld cemetery . The burial place of the Wallach family, which includes several individual graves with an obelisk , is also worth mentioning . Today there are still 133 graves in the cemetery.
See also
literature
- Heinrich Dittmar / Herbert Jäkel: History of the Jews in Alsfeld . Alsfeld, Geschichts- u. Museumsverein, 1988, pp. 48–65, ISBN 3-927284-00-9 (with list of graves).
- Peer Zietz: City of Alsfeld (cultural monuments in Hessen), Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2002, p. 182, ISBN 3-8062-1724-6 ( monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany ).
Web links
- Alsfeld Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Jüdischer Friedhof (Alsfeld) In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Alsfeld | Angenrod | Bobenhausen | Crainfeld | Einartshausen | Homberg | Kestrich | Kirtorf | Grebenau | Lauterbach | Low-ohmen | Rülfenrod | Slot | Bulkheads | Storndorf | Ulrichstein
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 22.1 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 56.8 ″ E