Binsförth Jewish cemetery

The Binsförth Jewish cemetery is located in the district of Binsförth , a district of the Morschen community in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse . It is the oldest Jewish cemetery in North Hesse.

The 5540 m² cemetery, which was used until 1937, is fenced and is located about 800 m southwest of the village on the northern slope of the Wichter Höhe, immediately north of the edge of the forest there. It can be reached from the village via a dirt road that initially runs parallel to the Eselsgraben. The site was donated in the middle of the 17th century by the lords of Baumbach , local manor owners , to the Jewish community in neighboring Beiseförth , which also included the Jewish residents of Binsförth, Malsfeld , Neumorschen and Rengshausen . In addition, deceased Jews from Heinebach and Nenterode and until 1860 or 1867 from Melsungen , Röhrenfurth and Spangenberg also found their final resting place here.

A total of 256 tombstones ( Mazewot ) from the established occupation time from 1694 to 1937 are still available today; the oldest legible inscription on a grave monument is from 1694.

Web links

• The Jewish cemetery Binsförth near Alemannia Judaica
• Entry on the Jewish cemetery near Binsförth in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association
• Site plan, Binsförth Jewish cemetery .  In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Graves of the Jewish cemetery in Binsförth .  Jewish graves in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Jewish history Beiseförth

literature

• Walter Dippel: The former Jewish community in Beiseförth. In: Beiseförth - history of a village. Chronicle of the 650th anniversary celebration in 1998. Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Beiseförth, 1998, pp. 89–93.
• Friedrich Jäger: 700 years of Binsförth. Binsförth municipality, 1963.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '50 "  N , 9 ° 33' 59.4"  E