Jewish cemetery (Kleinsteinach)

Kleinsteinach Jewish cemetery

Kleinsteinach Jewish cemetery in sunset

Tahara house

The Jewish cemetery small Steinach in Lower Franconia small Steinach , a district in the town of Riedbach in the district Haßberge ( Bayern ) is one and a half kilometers southwest of Klein Steinach near the B 303 and 122 includes Ar .

history

The construction of the cemetery dates back to 1453. The oldest identifiable gravestone ( Mazewa ) of the cemetery is from 1596. The cemetery became an association cemetery for the Jewish communities of Aidhausen , Haßfurt , Gnetzgau , Schonungen , Schweinshaupten and Westheim . Many rabbis are among the deceased buried in the cemetery .

The cemetery was first desecrated in 1894.

In September 1925, a war memorial was erected in the cemetery for the Jewish soldiers who died in the First World War . At the inauguration, the town's second mayor spoke out in favor of peaceful coexistence between Jews and Christians. With the funeral of Daniel Mahler on January 18, 1942, the last burial took place in the Jewish cemetery of Kleinsteinach.

Tahara house

literature

Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, pp. 100-105, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 (with many photos)

Web links

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

[1] The Jewish cemetery of Kleinsteinach near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
[2] The central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany via the Jewish cemetery in Kleinsteinach
[3] The House of Bavarian History on the Jewish cemetery in Kleinsteinach
[4] The "Jewish Paths of Life" museum in Kleinsteinach

50.109196 10.430858Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 33.1 ″ N , 10 ° 25 ′ 51.1 ″ E