Büdesheim Jewish Cemetery (Hesse)

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The Jewish cemetery Büdesheim was the cemetery for the inhabitants of the Jewish faith in Büdesheim , a district of the community Schöneck in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse . It existed around 1870 and was used until 1942. It is located on the Kilianstädter Forest.

View from the west 2015

Geographical location

The Jewish cemetery is at the eastern end of the village on a hill at the edge of the forest. It can be reached via Schlesierstraße and Hanauer Path , from the eastern ends of which a footpath leads further to the forest.

history

The cemetery has existed since around 1870 and was used exclusively by the Büdesheim community. The last burial took place on August 14, 1942 ( Kathinka Strauss ). Immediately afterwards, the last Jewish residents of Büdesheim were deported in mid-September of the same year and the cemetery was desecrated by SA men. The tombstones were overturned and the enclosure devastated. Some gravestones were then sold by the Büdesheim community.

investment

The cemetery covers an area of ​​823 m² and is surrounded by a hedge of bushes. Only 19 tombstones remain, which were grouped around a memorial stone outside the actual grave sites. This was built in the post-war period and bears the inscription Here was a Jewish cemetery, which fell victim to the Nazi terror in 1943–1944. Among them are 27 names. A key to the cemetery is available from the town hall of Schöneck.

literature

  • Paul Arnsberg : The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning - fall - new beginning. Volume I. Published by the regional association of Jewish communities in Hesse, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 1972, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 , pp. 95f.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '53.7 "  N , 8 ° 51' 2.8"  E