Jewish cemetery (Memmelsdorf in Lower Franconia)

The Jewish cemetery of Memmelsdorf in Lower Franconia , part of the Untermerzbach community , is located north of the village and has an area of 33.40 acres . Today there are still about a hundred tombstones ( mazewot ).

Another Jewish cemetery in Untermerzbach is the Jewish cemetery in Untermerzbach .

history

In 1813, with 240 people, half of the Memmelsdorf population was Jewish , since Junker Sylvester von Buttlar had houses built for Jews at the end of the 17th century .

Until the inauguration of the Memmelsdorf cemetery in 1835, the deceased local Jews were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Ebern . The first burial in the Memmelsdorf cemetery took place on July 8, 1835, the last in November 1937. Men and women are buried in separate rows in around 113 individual graves.

In the 1950s the cemetery was repaired. The area was reduced by shifting the cemetery wall by 50 meters.

In 1926 the cemetery was desecrated by locals. Another desecration happened in 1999 when three tombstones were knocked over and the inscription plaque on a fourth tombstone was destroyed. The perpetrators could not be identified.

literature

Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, pp. 124–127, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 (with many photos)

Web links

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

[1] The Jewish cemetery in Memmelsdorf near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
[2] The central archive for researching the history of Jews in Germany through the Jewish cemetery in Memmelsdorf
[3] The House of Bavarian History on the Jewish cemetery in Memmelsdorf

50.155103 10.846044Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 18.4 ″ N , 10 ° 50 ′ 45.8 ″ E