Jewish cemetery (Egelsbach)

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Jewish cemetery in Egelsbach

The Jewish cemetery in Egelsbach , a municipality in the Offenbach district in southern Hesse , was laid out in 1892. The Jewish cemetery , right next to the communal cemetery on Friedenstrasse, is a protected cultural monument .

The 6.32 acres large cemetery is surrounded by a high wall. Today there are still about 40 tombstones ( mazewot ).

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 version ).

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 56.9 ″  E