Jewish cemetery (Schweinshaupten)

The Jewish cemetery Schweinshaupten is a cemetery in Schweinshaupten in Lower Franconia , a district of the Bundorf municipality in the Haßberge district .

Schweinshaupten Jewish cemetery

In the 20 ares large cemetery northeast of Schweinshaupten there are 119 gravestones ( Mazewot ).

history

Before the inauguration of the cemetery, the deceased local Jews were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Ebern and in the Jewish cemetery in Kleinsteinach . A plaque near the cemetery commemorates the Jewish community of Schweinshaupten, which existed until 1935 . The last burial in the cemetery was on January 11, 1940 that of Math. Neumann.

Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 , pp. 172-175. (with many photos)

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

[1] The Jewish cemetery in Schweinshaupten near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
[2] The central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany via the Jewish cemetery in Schweinshaupten
[3] The House of Bavarian History on the Jewish cemetery in Schweinshaupten

↑ There are various details about the year the cemetery was inaugurated. www.alemannia-judaica.de speaks of 1869; According to a compilation of Jewish cemeteries by Cordula Kappner (2005), the Protestant pastor of Schweinshaupten reported in the 19th century that an order issued by the government in 1832 stipulated that every Jewish community should set up a cemetery for fear of cholera.