Jewish cemetery (Aub)

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The Aub Jewish cemetery in Aub , a town in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg , is located on Harbachweg and contains 102 graves in three rows. In the western wall of the cemetery there are 40 tombstones ( mazewot ) from the old cemetery .

history

Jewish cemetery in Aub

The first Jews from Aub settled in the village after the persecution of the Jews of the First Crusade , a little later survivors of the Rintfleisch pogrom of 1298 and the Armleder persecution of 1337 came to Aub.

Until the inauguration of the cemetery in 1630/31 directly in front of the then city wall, the deceased local Jews were buried in the nearby association cemeteries .

For unknown reasons, there was then a ban on the funeral at the Auber cemetery. B. from 1665 to 1695 the deceased local Jews were buried in the no longer preserved cemetery of Eibelstadt . It was not until 1700 that burials took place again in the Jewish cemetery in Aub.

When the area available in the cemetery was exhausted in 1880, the cemetery was expanded. Due to the different height levels of both parts of the cemetery, a retaining wall was built, the construction of which was made possible by a donation from the head of the Jewish community, Aub Abraham Oppenheimer. The wall was completed in 1923. A limestone memorial stone erected in November 1888 commemorates the old cemetery.

A memorial for the parishioners who died in World War I was erected behind the entrance gate .

literature

  • Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, pp. 22-25, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 (with many photos)

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '11.8 "  N , 10 ° 4' 7.4"  E