Jewish cemetery (Roth)

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Jewish cemetery in Roth
Jewish cemetery in Roth

The Jewish cemetery Roth is a Jewish cemetery in Roth , a district of the Weimar community in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument and is located south of the village on the Geiersberg.

history

The Jewish cemetery in Roth is mentioned on a map from 1766/1769. The Jewish community of Fronhausen also buried their dead in the cemetery until they set up their own burial site in 1873. The Roth cemetery was closed in 1939. It had an area of ​​25 acres , of which an unoccupied 16 acres were sold to two residents in 1942.

Today there are 43 tombstones ( mazewot ) in the cemetery .

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 ).
  • Barbara Wagner, Dieter Bertram, Friedrich Damrath, Friedemann Wagner: The Jewish cemeteries and families in Fronhausen, Lohra, Roth . Marburg 2009. [not evaluated]
  • Herbert Kosog: The Jews of Roth . Slightly shortened version of the first in: Heimatwelt, which was expanded to include a comment by Dietmar Haubfleisch . From the past and the present . Edited by the Weimar Municipal Administration, 5th issue, Weimar 1979, pp. 11-21, article published: Marburg 1998: http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/sonst/1998/0012.html

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 14.4 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 25.8"  E