Jewish cemetery (Ullstadt)

Older part of the cemetery, 2011

Tahara House, 2011

The Jewish cemetery in Ullstadt , a district of the Sugenheim market in the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district in Central Franconia , is a Jewish burial site that was occupied from the beginning of the 17th century until the second half of the 1930s.

location

Newer part of the cemetery, 2011

One of the last erected graves in the cemetery from 1937

The 6330 m² burial site is located southeast of the village of Ullstadt, about 500 meters south of the road to Langenfeld at the edge of the forest. The property is bordered on three sides by a 1.20 m high wall made of sand and rubble stones . The southern side includes a wire fence that replaces an earlier wooden fence. At the entrance there is a Tahara house with two rooms of 17 m² each .

history

The history of the Jewish community in Ullstadt goes back to the early 17th century. A document from 1613 mentions the admission of the Jews Itzchak and Josef by the ruler of the House of Seckendorff . Around the same time, the Jewish cemetery was built, the oldest surviving gravestone from 1627. The complex was used as an association cemetery by other communities, including Aub , Burgambach, Burghaslach , Diespeck (until 1811), Dottenheim, Kaubenheim , Neustadt an der Aisch (until 1811), Pahres, Scheinfeld , Schnodsenbach, Schornweisach and especially Sugenheim (since 1620) .

Later some of these communities built their own burial places. Nevertheless, the growing number of Jewish residents in the first half of the 19th century made it necessary to expand the cemetery. Through a contract dated October 24, 1838, to which the Jewish communities of Ullstadt, Sugenheim, Scheinfeld and Dottenheim agreed, the existing area for 425  guilders was increased by 68  decimal places .

The cemetery, on which 567 tombstones have been preserved, survived the National Socialist era largely unscathed. The last funerals took place there in the second half of the 1930s. Much of the originating from the places mentioned Jews fell in the death camps of the Holocaust victims.

literature

• Gerhard Hojer: District of Scheinfeld (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 35 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, DNB  760102457 , p. 338 .
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Ed. from the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 1988, pp. 185-186, ISBN 3-87052-393-X

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alemannia Judaica : Ullstadt - Jewish cemetery . As of October 19, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Regional Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Bavaria : Ullstadt Cemetery ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . As of October 19, 2011.  
3. ^ House of Bavarian History : Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria - Ullstadt . As of October 19, 2011.

Web links

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

• Jewish cemetery Ullstadt
• Michael Trüger: The Jewish cemetery in Ullstadt-Sugenheim . In: The National Association of Israelites. Religious communities in Bavaria. No. 68 (10th year). December 1995. pp. 15-16.

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 8 ″  E