Jewish cemetery (Euerbach)

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A grave in the Jewish cemetery in Euerbach.
Several graves in the cemetery.
Epitaph

The Jewish cemetery Euerbach is located in Euerbach , a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt .

history

After the first Jews had settled in Euerbach in 1554 after the expulsion of the Jewish residents from Schweinfurt , the first burial took place in the Jewish cemetery of Euerbach on July 16, 1672. The landlord Adam Ulrich von Steinau had sold a field on the Hasenklinge below the “Euerbach wood” to the Jewish community . It is not known where the Euerbach Jews buried their dead between 1554 and 1672.

Over time, not only Jews from Euerbach were buried in the Euerbach cemetery, but also from Niederwerrn , Obbach , Geldersheim and Kützberg , and occasionally from Schweinfurt and Arnstadt. In the years 1734, 1835 and until 1936 the cemetery was expanded.

In November 1938, members of the Hitler Youth desecrated the cemetery.

A tahara house , a prayer house (both built around 1807) and a fountain are said to have been located next to the entrance, which were destroyed by a grenade explosion in the Second World War . The last burial in the cemetery took place in 1940.

Location and characterization

The cemetery is located northwest of Euerbach. In the 84.3 ares large cemetery there are still 1278 tombstones ( Mazewot ).

literature

  • Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, pp. 52–55, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 (with many photos)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/euerbach_friedhof.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/aj/FRIEDHOF/Bayern/f-bayern.htm#Euerbach
  3. ↑ http://www.hdbg.de/juedische-friedhoefe/friedhoefe/friedhof_euerbach.php

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 40.8 ″  E