Jewish cemetery (Bad Brückenau)

The Bad Brückenau Jewish Cemetery in Bad Brückenau , a town in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen , was established in 1923. It is located at the northern exit of the village in the direction of Fulda (accessible via Leimbachstraße), right next to the forest cemetery .

history

There was an older Jewish cemetery near Bad Brückenau , the location of which can no longer be clearly identified today.

The Jewish community of Bad Brückenau had buried its dead before 1924 in the Jewish cemetery in Altengronau . The new Jewish cemetery in Bad Brückenau is one of the youngest Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria , as it was only established in 1923. The first burial took place on September 21, 1924. Today 23 tombstones ( mazewot ) are preserved in the 7.59 ares large cemetery .

After 1945, the city of Bad Brückenau acquired a large part of the unused property and established the communal forest cemetery on it and an adjacent property.

Commemoration

In 1987 a memorial stone was erected in the forest cemetery in memory of the Jewish community in Bad Brückenau and its synagogue , which was destroyed in 1938 . The inscription reads: In memory of the Holy Community of Brückenau. The city of Bad Brückenau commemorates its former Jewish fellow citizens. The synagogue was located at Unterhainstrasse No. 24 and was used for prayer until it was destroyed in the pogrom night of 9/10. November 1938. During the most severe persecution, the Jewish community died out in 1939. As a warning and commemoration. This property was formerly the property of the Jewish community in Brückenau .

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).
• Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 , pp. 26-29.
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Ed. from the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X , p. 38.

Web links

• Bad Brückenau Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria - Bad Brückenau
• [1] Bad Brueckenau. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Bavaria. Editor: Felicitas Grützmann, Central Archive for Research into the History of Jews in Germany , 2010

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '9.9 "  N , 9 ° 47' 2.8"  E