Jewish cemetery (Aufenau)
The Jewish cemetery Aufenau is a Jewish cemetery in Aufenau , a district of the town of Wächtersbach in the Main-Kinzig district ( Hesse ). The cemetery on Münchener Strasse is a protected cultural monument . Today it is surrounded by a new development area.
history
The dead of the Jewish communities in the area were initially buried in the Birstein Jewish Cemetery or the Gelnhausen Jewish Cemetery. In 1804, the Jewish communities of Aufenau and Wächtersbach, together with the Jews from Wittgenborn , Schlierbach and Hesseldorf , decided to create a joint cemetery in Aufenau. In 1841 the Jewish community in Orb also joined the cemetery association .
After the dissolution of the Jewish community in Aufenau, only the Jewish communities of Wächtersbach and Orb were the bearers of the cemetery. After the creation of a new Jewish cemetery in Bad Orb around 1932, only the Jewish community in Wächtersbach remained responsible for the cemetery. The last burial (Kätchen Loebenberg) at the Jewish cemetery in Aufenau took place in 1935.
During the Nazi era , the cemetery wall was torn down in 1939 and tombstones ( mazewot ) were overturned. In 1946, those who had contributed to the destruction had to erect the gravestones that had been turned down and plant a living hedge.
literature
- Exactly. In: Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ).
- Waltraud Friedrich: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Main-Kinzig district II.2. Gelnhausen, Gründau, Hasselroth, Jossgrund, Linsengericht, Wächtersbach. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Theiss, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2469-6 , p. 903 ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ).
Web links
- Jewish cemetery Aufenau near Alemannia Judaica
- Private website about the Jewish cemetery in Aufenau (see Heimatjahrbuch 1988)
Altengronau | Old Riedermus | Aufenau | Bad Orb | Birstein | Büdesheim | Eckardroth | Gelnhausen | Gettenbach | Großkrotzenburg | Hain-Gründau | Hanau | Heroes Mountains (old cemetery) | Heldenbergen (new cemetery) | Langenselbold | Marquee | Niedermittlau | Rückingen | Salmünster | Schlüchtern (old) | Schlüchtern (new) | Steinheim (old cemetery) | Steinheim (new cemetery) | Full pain | Wind corners
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 9 ° 19 ′ 9.4 ″ E