Jewish cemetery (Lisberg)

General view of the Jewish cemetery in Lisberg

Stone tahara table from the Jewish cemetery in Lisberg

The Lisberg Jewish Cemetery in Lisberg , a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg , was established in 1739. The cemetery is outside the village, in the direction of Frenshof , on a hill to the left of the road.

history

The Jewish community in Lisberg buried its dead before 1739 in the Jewish cemetery in Walsdorf . The Jewish cemetery in Lisberg was laid out in 1739 at the latest. It is surrounded by a stone wall built in the 1980s and has an area of ​​21.08 acres . Today about 120 tombstones ( mazewot ) are still preserved. The last burial took place in 1936.

It is noteworthy that the right of the entrance nor the Tahara table exists in stone, although the Taharahaus are only the foundation walls.

literature

• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Ed. from the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 1988, p. 216, ISBN 3-87052-393-X .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Lisberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lisberg Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• [1] Lisberg. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Bavaria. Editor: Felicitas Grützmann, Central Archive for Research into the History of Jews in Germany , 2010
• Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria - Lisberg

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 43.7 "  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 27"  E