Jewish cemetery (Steinach an der Saale)

The Jewish cemetery in the municipality of Bad Bocklet in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen belonging district Steinach was built 1874th It is located in a forest, about one kilometer north of the village, west of the road to Bad Neustadt .

history

The Jewish community in Steinach had buried their dead before 1874 in the Jewish cemetery in Kleinbardorf . After the entrance on the right there are children's graves and the other graves are arranged in four rows.

Today about 100 tombstones ( mazewot ) are preserved in the 12.80 ares large cemetery . The cemetery was enclosed with a concrete wall in the 1970s.

literature

• Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-071-6 , pp. 176-179.
• 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. 88.

Web links

• Steinach Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• [1] Steinach. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Bavaria. Editor: Felicitas Grützmann, Central Archive for Research into the History of Jews in Germany , 2010
• Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria - Steinach
• Folded tourist map of the Bad Bocklet community (PDF; 698 kB)

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 1 ″  E