Jewish cemetery (Weyer)

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The Weyer Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Weyer , a district of the Villmar municipality in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument . It is located on the eastern outskirts.

history

The Jewish cemetery served as a burial place for the Jewish residents of Weyer as well as Oberbruch , Wolfenhausen and Münster . These formed a Jewish community around the Weyer synagogue . The cemetery and synagogue can be traced back to the 18th century. In the 11.10 ares large cemetery there are still 58 tombstones ( mazewot ) from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The last funeral took place around 1938.

literature

  • Falko Lehmann: Cultural monuments in the Hesse district Limburg-Weilburg . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. tape 2 . Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-528-06243-6 , pp. 678 .

Web links

Weyer Jewish cemetery. Retrieved April 28, 2013 . atAlemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 1 "  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 35.1"  E