Jewish cemetery (Schweinheim, Aschaffenburg)

Jewish cemetery on the Erbig, between Schweinheim and Obernau near Aschaffenburg

Surrounding wall of the Jewish cemetery between Schweinheim and Obernau near Aschaffenburg

The Jewish cemetery Aschaffenburg am Erbig is located southwest of Schweinheim , a district of the independent city of Aschaffenburg in Lower Franconia . There are 542 tombstones ( Mazewot ) in the 92.90 ares large cemetery .

history

The first burial in the cemetery, the existence of which has been documented since the first half of the 18th century, took place in 1735. When it was in use, it served as an association cemetery for local Jewish communities. The dead from the Jewish communities in Aschaffenburg, Bessenbach, Eschau, Goldbach, Großostheim, Großwallstadt, Hausen, Hobbach, Hösbach, Hofstetten, Kleinostheim, Kleinwallstadt, Mömlingen, Niedernberg, Obernau, Schöllkrippen, Sulzbach were buried here. The Erbig was still called Judenberg in the 19th century . In 1942, the Wolfsthal couple and five other people who had preferred their suicide to deportation were buried in the last funeral .

The cemetery fell victim to desecration as early as the 18th century. For example, in 1773 Aschaffenburg students destroyed 20 tombstones and the cemetery wall, opened some graves and tore the head off the body of the Torah scholar Rabbi Jerachmiel. Also during the time of National Socialism there were repeated violations. In 1985, 42 gravestones were damaged and grazed.

Other Jewish cemeteries

Other Jewish cemeteries in Aschaffenburg are: The Jewish cemetery in the Aschaffenburg city area, as well as a new Jewish cemetery established in 1983 as part of the Aschaffenburg forest cemetery on Stockstadter Weg (there is a single grave, that of Wilhelm Jelinek and his wife) and a medieval cemetery, which was used until around 1400 (no longer preserved).

literature

• Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 , pp. 16-21. (with many photos)

Web links

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

• Aschaffenburg (Lower Franconia): The Jewish cemeteries. The Jewish cemetery of Aschaffenburg near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
• Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria: Aschaffenburg (Am Erbig). The central archive for researching the history of Jews in Germany via the Jewish cemetery in Aschaffenburg (Am Erbig)
• Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria: Aschaffenburg 3. The House of Bavarian History about the Jewish cemetery in Aschaffenburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria: Aschaffenburg 2.

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 45.5 ″  E