Jewish cemetery (Thalmässing)

The Thalmässing Jewish cemetery is a Jewish burial site in Thalmässing , a Bavarian market in the Roth district of Central Franconia .

The cemetery with an area of ​​14 ares is located on the southern edge of the village and houses about 130 tombstones.

history

When Thalmässing did not have its own cemetery, the deceased local Jews were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Georgensgmünd . The Thalmässing Jewish cemetery was inaugurated in 1832; its construction was made possible by donations from the Heidecker and Niedermair families. The first burial in the cemetery was that of Abraham Wallerstein on February 10, 1833.

During the Nazi era , the cemetery was desecrated and tombstones were destroyed and removed. When the site was occupied by US troops in 1945, the soldiers included the descendant of a Jew who was resident in Thalmässing and who used former NSDAP members to restore the cemetery. The removed tombstones have been returned, but are no longer in their original locations within the cemetery grounds.

In 1968 the tahara house of the cemetery was demolished.

See also

• Thalmässing Jewish community

literature

• Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Middle and Upper Franconia. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-572-8 , pp. 182-185. (with many photos)

Web links

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

• The Jewish cemetery of Thalmässing near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
• The Thalmässing Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• The Jewish cemetery of Thalmässing near the House of Bavarian History (with photos)

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 56.5 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 0.2 ″  E