Jewish cemetery (Lauterbach)

Jewish cemetery in Lauterbach

The Jewish cemetery in Lauterbach , a town in the Vogelsberg district in Hesse , was established in 1898. The Jewish cemetery , west of the communal cemetery at the end of the street Am Kalkofen , is a protected cultural monument .

history

The Jewish cemetery was laid out in 1898, the year the Jewish community was officially founded . Samuel Strauss donated the property. The Jews from Herbstein were also buried in the cemetery. The first burial was that of Jette Seligmann (died in August 1899), the last was that of Karoline Strauss on January 21, 1938. Today there are still 54 grave sites.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ).
• Walter Krug: Cultural monuments in Hessen. City of Lauterbach (Hesse) . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2007, pp. 146–147, ISBN 3-8062-2021-2 ( monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ).

Web links

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

• Jewish cemetery Lauterbach near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
• Lauterbach Jewish Cemetery ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at archive.is, saved by Judaica Vogelsberg (with all inscriptions on the tombstones)

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 29.6 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 37.9 ″  E