Jewish cemetery (Neustädtles)

Jewish cemetery (new part)

Jewish cemetery (old part)

The Neustädtles Jewish Cemetery in Neustädtles , a district of the municipality of Nordheim vor der Rhön in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld , was built in the 16th or 17th century. The cemetery is located on a hill between Willmars and Neustädtles and can be reached via a dirt road at the level of the last Willmarser Aussiedlerhof .

history

There was no Jewish community in Neustädtles itself . The Jewish cemetery in Neustädtles was laid out in the 16th or 17th century for the dead of the following Jewish communities in the area: Haselbach , Hausen , Nordheim vor der Rhön , Oberelsbach , Weisbach , Willmars and, until 1890, some Oberwaldbehrungen .

Today about 1,300 tombstones ( Mazewot ) are preserved on the old part and 113 on the new part of the 47.80 ares large cemetery . The last burial took place in 1938.

literature

• Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 , pp. 134-137.
• 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 , pp. 94-95.

Web links

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

• The Jewish cemetery in Neustädtles near Alemannia Judaica
• The Jewish cemetery in Neustädtles at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• The Jewish cemetery in Neustädtles near the House of Bavarian History

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 7.8 ″  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 1 ″  E