Jewish cemetery (Passau)
The Jewish cemetery in Passau , a town in Lower Bavaria , existed in the Middle Ages . The Jewish cemetery was north of the Oberhauser Leite , today Am Vogelherd .
The cemetery was mentioned in a document in 1418. Before the persecution in 1338 and during the plague time of 1348/49 , the dead of the Jewish community were probably buried in Regensburg .
In the 19th and 20th In the 19th century, the Jews living in Passau belonged to the Jewish community in Straubing . After 1946 there was a temporary Jewish community in Passau, whose members consisted of surviving concentration camp inmates .
literature
- Christoph Daxelmüller: The good place. Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria. House of Bavarian History , Augsburg 2009, ISBN 3-937974-22-9 , p. 70.