Jewish cemetery (Dieburg)
The Jewish cemetery Dieburg is a Jewish cemetery in Dieburg , a town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district ( Hesse ). The cemetery is a protected cultural monument and is located at the exit of the city in the direction of Frankfurt am Main or Hanau ( Bundesstraße 45 ) to the left of the street in an industrial area (Straße Am Bauhof ).
history
The cemetery of the Jewish community in Dieburg was laid out around 1530 and expanded in 1812, 1830 and 1926. It has an area of 108.30 acres . The cemetery hall ( Tahara House ) was built in 1853. The dead were also buried in the following places in the cemetery: Eppertshausen , Georgenhausen , Groß-Bieberau , Groß-Umstadt , Groß-Zimmer , Gundernhausen , Habitzheim , Klein-Umstadt , Lengfeld , Messel , Münster , Ober-Klingen , Ober-Ramstadt , Raibach , Reinheim , Roßdorf , Semd , Spachbrücken , Ueberau , Urberach and Zeilhard .
Today there are 989 tombstones ( mazewot ) in the cemetery . To the left of the entrance is the older part with the oldest stone from 1715. Because of the lack of space, the older stones were buried. In the middle part there are the tombstones from the 19th century and in the newer part the last tombstones from the 1930s.
During the National Socialist era , some of the tombstones were cleared away and used as building material for a staircase. After 1945 these stones were returned to the cemetery, but some of them could no longer be assigned to individual graves, so that they now lean against the cemetery wall.
literature
- Monika Rohde-Reith u. Florian Hoffarth: Know who you are standing in front of! Jewish life in Dieburg. Museum Schloss Fechenbach Dieburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941823-04-4 .
- Eckhart G. Franz and Christa Wiesner: The Jewish cemetery in Dieburg. Commission for the history of the Jews in Hessen Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-921434-29-1 .
- Günter Keim: Contributions to the history of the Jews in Dieburg. Magistrate of the City of Dieburg 1993.
Web links
- Information from the city of Dieburg
- To the Jewish cemetery in Dieburg near Alemannia Judaica
- Jewish cemetery Dieburg at fester.de
- Information in the State Historical Information System Hesse (LAGIS)
Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 21.2 " N , 8 ° 50 ′ 42" E