Jewish cemetery (Reichmannsdorf)

Jewish cemetery in Reichmannsdorf, 2011

Jewish cemetery in Reichmannsdorf, 2011

Jewish cemetery in Reichmannsdorf, 2011

The Jewish cemetery in Reichmannsdorf , a district of Schlüsselfeld in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg , is a Jewish burial site that was built in 1840 and occupied until 1908.

location

The 680 m² cemetery is located north of the center of Reichmannsdorf on a small hill on Sambachergrund , east of the road to Mönchsambach.

history

The formation of the Jewish community in Reichmannsdorf goes back to the 17th or 18th century. The first mention of Jews living there , who were under the protection of the Barons von Schrottenberg, dates back to 1779. In the first half of the 19th century, almost a quarter of the inhabitants of Reichmannsdorf were Jewish. The deceased of the Kehillah in Reichmannsdorf were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mühlhausen .

After the transfer of the dead to Mühlhausen, which was “almost an hour away” for the time, was considered “in violation of the medical police”, in 1832 the construction of a Jewish cemetery in Reichmannsdorf was approved. In 1840 the Jewish community bought a piece of land from Georg Beßler for 40 guilders in order to build their own churchyard there. The massive quarry stone wall that surrounds the burial site and was renovated in 1928 probably also dates from this period.

Due to the ongoing emigration of Reichmannsdorf Jews to the cities or abroad since the middle of the 19th century, the Jewish community was dissolved in 1907 and assigned to the Jewish community of Burgebrach . The last burial in the Jewish cemetery in Reichmannsdorf took place in October 1908. In 1910 there were still nine Jews living in the village. In 1924 only three Jewish people from Reichmannsdorf belonged to the Burgebrach Jewish community. In 1926 the building of the former Reichmannsdorf synagogue was sold.

During the Nazi era from 1933, the cemetery was desecrated. At least ten residents in Reichmannsdorf born or longer time Jews fell in the death camps of the Holocaust victims. The damage to the Jewish cemetery was repaired in 1945. The approximately 30 preserved tombstones ( Mazewot ) are partly badly weathered and, as far as recognizable, only inscribed in Hebrew.

literature

• Johann Fleischmann: Mezuzah 3. Traces of the Jewish past in Aisch, Aurach, Ebrach and Seebach. The Jewish cemeteries of Zeckern, Walsdorf, Aschbach, Uehlfeld, Mühlhausen, Lisberg, Burghaslach and Reichmannsdorf . Mühlhausen 2002, ISBN 3-933623-07-3
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Ed. from the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 1988, pp. 185-186, ISBN 3-87052-393-X
• Michael Trüger: The Jewish cemetery in Reichmannsdorf . In: The regional association of the Israelite cultural communities in Bavaria. No. 83 (15th year). September 2000. p. 23.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} House of Bavarian History : Jewish Cemeteries in Bavaria - Reichmannsdorf . As of November 5, 2011.
2. ^ ^{A b} Alemannia Judaica : Reichmannsdorf - Jewish history / synagogue . As of December 12, 2010.
3. ↑ Alemannia Judaica : Reichmannsdorf - Jewish cemetery . As of December 15, 2006.
4. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 . As of May 19, 2011.
5. ↑ Regional Association of Israelite Religious Communities in Bavaria : Jewish Cemetery in Reichmannsdorf ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . As of November 5, 2011.  

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Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 23 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 34"  E