Jewish cemetery (Maßbach)

Jewish cemetery of Maßbach

Gravestone of the last burial: Jette Grünebaum

The Maßbach Jewish Cemetery in Maßbach , a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen , was established in 1902. It is located on a steep slope in the Steinerloh corridor northwest of the village. The Jewish cemetery can be reached via the road leading out of town from the communal cemetery (Obere Friedhofstrasse) .

history

The Jewish community of Maßbach had buried their dead before 1903 in the Kleinbardorf Jewish cemetery . The dead of the Jewish community in Poppenlauer were now buried in the new Jewish cemetery in Massbach . Today 41 tombstones ( mazewot ) are preserved in the 3.87 ares large cemetery . The first burial took place on January 16, 1903 (Samuel Eberhardt) and the last on June 6, 1942 (Jette Grünebaum).

literature

• Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 , pp. 116-119.
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Ed. from the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X , p. 88.

Web links

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

• Maßbach Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• [1] Maßbach. 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 - Maßbach

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 10 ″  E