Jewish cemetery (Wehrheim)
The Jewish cemetery Wehrheim is a Jewish cemetery in Wehrheim , a community in the Hochtaunus district in Hesse . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument and is located southeast of Wehrheim, on the right on the road to Köppern .
history
The dead of the Jewish community in Wehrheim were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Anspach . By 1860 this cemetery was fully occupied. After the civil parish rejected an extension on the grounds that it was too close to the residential area, it had to be closed. Therefore, outside of Wehrheim in the Bizzenbachtal, a Jewish association cemetery was set up for the Jews in Anspach , Kransberg , Pfaffenwiesbach , Wehrheim and other places. This decision met with determined resistance from the last two Jewish families in Anspach, but they were unable to prevail. On August 11, 1864, the first woman from Anspach was buried in the Wehrheim cemetery.
The oldest still legible tombstone ( Mazewa ) from 1874 is on the 10.86 ares large cemetery. During the Nazi era , numerous stones were destroyed. Today there are still around a dozen tombstones.
See also
literature
- Wehrheim. In: Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ).
- Johanna Koppenhöfer: Wehrheim-Wirena - The Chronicle. Self-published , Wehrheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028403-8 , p. 317.
Web links
- Information on the Jewish cemetery in Wehrheim at Alemannia Judaica
- Information in the State Historical Information System Hesse (LAGIS)
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 12 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 11.7" E