Jewish cemetery (housing)

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View from the outskirts of the house

The Jewish cemetery Gehaus in the district Gehaus of the municipality Dermbach in the Wartburg district in Thuringia was first mentioned in 1745. The cemetery is located on Weilarian Weg and is fenced off there by a fence and rows of trees. During the Nazi era , it was devastated by SA men , as was the Gehaus synagogue .

On a cemetery area of ​​about 2200 m² there are still about 125 graves .

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 ).

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 18.5 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 7.9 ″  E