Jewish cemetery (Bechhofen)

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery

Tombstones

The Bechhofen Jewish Cemetery is the second largest Jewish cemetery in Bavaria . It is located on a hill northwest of Bechhofen , a market in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach . The 16,510 m² cemetery still contains 2,294 gravestones of around 8,000 burials . The oldest tombstone is from 1602.

history

The cemetery was occupied for over 300 years - from the end of the 16th century to around 1938. In 1938 the Jewish community of Bechhofen was dissolved.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the cemetery was available for burials for around 16 Jewish communities , including Ansbach , Cronheim , Treuchtlingen , Herrieden and Gunzenhausen . In 1910 it was expanded.

The cemetery was desecrated several times - during the Thirty Years War , in the 1920s and 1930s and in 2010. The Tahara House was destroyed in 1938.

Web links

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

• Bechhofen (Ansbach district) Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• Bechhofen. 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
• House of Bavarian History
• “The famous synagogue and the Jewish cemetery in Bechhofen (Middle Franconia)” by M. Jankelowitz (1926)
• Jewish cemetery desecrated
• Where stones speak. The couple document the Bechhofen Jewish cemetery
• http://www.kreativerunterricht.de/html/judischer_friedhof_-_domino.html
• http://ikg-bayern.de/frs/fr_013.html
• therein: ISRAELITE CEMETERY
• http://www.juedischer-friedhof-bechhofen.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 51.5 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 39.1 ″  E