Jewish cemetery (Bacharach)

In memory of the victims of the Holocaust: a harp song of David, Psalm 143

The Bacharach Jewish Cemetery is located in the Oberdiebach district on the southern edge of Bacharach , a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The cemetery was created in connection with the general city cemetery at the end of the 1920s.

history

There is currently no evidence of a Jewish cemetery that was probably laid out in medieval times . The modern Jewish cemetery that still exists - the name of the local district “Am alten Kloster” has its origins in a Wilhelmite monastery built around 1287/88 - was created after a request from the Israelite community of Bacharach with the request to provide urban land, that the community could use as a cemetery. The request was granted, so that from 1926 to 1928 a double cemetery was set up.

The separately created Jewish cemetery is located above the municipal cemetery area on the southern outskirts of Bacharach. Access is therefore via the municipal cemetery above Bundesstraße 9 . A narrow forest path leads to the burial place of the Jews, which is located on an upper slope. The very small burial place is fenced in in a light wooded area.

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  Grave sites

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  Rosa Levy born Meyer

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  Ludwig Hall

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  Ephraim bar Simson, was the Jewish name of Abraham Keller

From the gravestones that have been preserved, only three burials have been carried out. The stone settings, some of which are bilingual, face east and include the names of three people.

• Abraham Keller, Dec. 20, 1856 - May 12, 1930
• Rosa Levy born Meyer, 1845-1929
• Ludwig Halle, Dec 1861-1931

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Bacharach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jewish cemeteries in Rhineland-Palatinate, Bacharach. Alemannia Judaica - Working Group for Research into the History of Jews in Southern Germany and the Adjoining Region, accessed on February 18, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Psalm 143 (Luther 1912) and Psalm 3 (New Evangelists)
2. ↑ Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz , inventory 613, factual file 1916

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 43.8 ″  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 55.3 ″  E