Jewish cemetery (Karbach)

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The Jewish cemetery Karbach in Lower Franconia Karbach , a market in the Main Spessart district lies south of Karbach and includes on the current counting about 230 grave stones ( Mazewot ) in 16 rows.

history

The efforts of the Jewish community of Karbach to have its own cemetery since 1812 led to a disagreement in the village, which was settled by Rabbi Seckel Löb Wormser .

The first burial in the cemetery took place in March 1819, when the 73-year-old Reitz Rosenband was buried. Deceased Jews from Erlenbach, Homburg (since 1852) and Marktheidenfeld also found their final resting place in the cemetery . In 1881 the high stone wall surrounding the cemetery was built. On October 17, 1938, Max Guttmann, the last deceased, was buried in this cemetery.

In 1977 pupils of the 10th and 11th grade of the Balthasar-Neumann-Gymnasium in Marktheidenfeld under the direction of Leonhard Scherg restored the cemetery. This work was carried out for ten more years.

In 1982 the cemetery was desecrated and two tombstones were destroyed.

In 1983, near the entrance, a memorial was erected in memory of the dead and the suffering of the Jewish fellow citizens.

literature

  • Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, pp. 86–89, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 (with many photos)
  • Hans Schlumberger / Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid: Karbach. In: Wolfgang Kraus / Hans-Christoph Dittscheid / Gury Schneider-Ludorff in connection with Meier Schwarz (eds.) More than stones ... Synagogue commemorative volume Bavaria Volume III / 1 Lower Franconia. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015. ISBN 978-3-898-70449-6 . Pp. 207-224.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 53.7 ″  E