Jewish cemetery (Rödelsee)

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Rödelsee

Jewish cemetery with a view of Rödelsee

The Jewish cemetery Rödelsee in Rödelsee , a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen , was established in the 15th century. The cemetery is located about one kilometer outside the village at the foot of the Schwanberg.

history

Tombstone

In Rödelsee, too, the Jewish cemetery is isolated due to the large amount of space it takes up due to the single occupancy. He is the house of eternity. Every deceased has their eternal resting place here in a simple wooden coffin. No tombstone is straightened or removed. On rare visits, a small stone is placed on the tombstone as a sign of remembrance. The two Hebrew letters that are often found above mean translated here is hidden . At the bottom you can sometimes see five letters that mean: His / her soul is included in the covenant of eternal life.

The 188.30 ares large cemetery in Rödelsee is one of the largest Jewish burial places in Bavaria. It was first mentioned in 1432. Tradition reports in 1602 that a massive wall and a Tahara house were built .

The dead of the following Jewish communities were also buried in the Jewish association cemetery: Großlangheim , Hohenfeld , Hüttenheim , Kitzingen , Kleinlangheim , Mainbernheim , Mainstockheim , Marktbreit , Marktsteft , Obernbreit , Segnitz , Sommerhausen and Wiesenbronn .

The cemetery was expanded in 1614 and in the 19th century.

Today more than 2500 tombstones ( Mazewot ) are still preserved in five burial fields. To the left of the entrance is the younger part of the cemetery with graves from the 19th and 20th centuries. During the time of National Socialism , violations took place several times.

War memorial for the Jewish fallen in World War I.

In the 1980s, the war memorial for the Jewish fallen in World War I was destroyed and rebuilt.

Tahara house

Tahara house

The dilapidated Tahara house could be rebuilt with a donation from Julius Klugmann and his wife Fränzi from New York, who came from Wiesenbronn . The small Tahara house was burned down during the November pogrom in 1938 and had to be demolished in 1950. The stone on which the washes of the bodies ( tahara ) took place was inscribed and erected in 1980 as a memorial. But he also fell victim to blind destruction in 1981 and was replaced by a new one in 1983. The memorial stone of the regional association of Israelite religious communities in Bavaria commemorates the Jewish residents who became victims of the Shoah as a result of the Nazi tyranny . This memorial stone of granite bears the following inscription: To the dead to the glory and eternal memory of the Jewish citizens of Rödelsee and surroundings, who perished in the cruel persecution years 1933-1945. As a warning to us living, to the coming generations as an urgent teaching.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ).
• Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 , pp. 156-161.
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Published by the Bavarian State Center for Political Education in Munich. Bayerische Verlags-Anstalt, Bamberg 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X .

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• To the Jewish cemetery Rödelsee near Alemannia Judaica
• Rödelsee Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria: Rödelsee

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rödelsee (Kitzingen district) Jewish cemetery. Alemannia Judaica, November 15, 2010, accessed September 2, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 190

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 8 ″  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 51 ″  E