Jewish cemetery (Reckendorf)

Jewish cemetery in Reckendorf

Jewish cemetery in Reckendorf

General view of the Jewish cemetery in Reckendorf

The Reckendorf Jewish Cemetery in Reckendorf , a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg , was established in 1798. It is located west of Reckendorf on a forest slope and can be reached via the Kapellenweg branching off from the Lourdes Chapel on the main road.

history

The Jewish community of Reckendorf had buried their dead before 1798 in the Jewish cemetery in Ebern . The growing Jewish community of Reckendorf had been trying to establish its own Jewish cemetery for a long time . In 1798 the Jewish community was able to purchase a plot of land to build a cemetery for 300 guilders in the vineyards. The oldest gravestone ( Mazewa ) in the 25.10 ares large cemetery dates from 1798. The cemetery is oriented to the west and not, as usual, to the east. It was surrounded by a massive stone wall and there are many sandstone tombstones in the older part . Today 394 tombstones are still preserved.

literature

• 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. 200.
• More than stones ... Synagogue memorial band Bavaria. Volume I . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt and Angela Hager with the assistance of Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans Christof Haas and Frank Purrmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-411-3 , pp. 201-208.

Web links

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

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 46 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 57 ″  E