Jewish cemetery (Pfaffenhausen)

The Jewish cemetery Pfaffenhausen in Pfaffenhausen , a district of the city of Hammelburg in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen , is located in the center of Pfaffenhausen on a slope that slopes to the north.

history

The Jewish cemetery in Pfaffenhausen was laid out around 1580. In the following centuries it served as an association cemetery for the dead of the following Jewish communities: Bad Kissingen (until 1801), Bonnland , Dittlofsroda , Gemünden am Main , Geroda (until 1911), Hammelburg , Hessdorf , Oberthulba , Untererthal , Unterriedenberg and Westheim .

Today many tombstones ( mazewot ) are still preserved in the 121 ares large cemetery . To the right of the entrance is the Tahara House.

literature

• Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 , pp. 146-149.
• 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. 103.

Web links

• Jewish cemetery in Pfaffenhausen near Alemannia Judaica
• [1] Pfaffenhausen. 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 - Pfaffenhausen

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 0.7 ″  E