Gettenbach Jewish cemetery

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The Jewish cemetery Gettenbach was the cemetery for the residents of the Jewish faith in Gettenbach , and numerous surrounding places in today's community of Gründau in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse . However, the boundaries of the district changed several times over the centuries.

View of the cemetery from the northeast 2015

Geographical location

The cemetery is located in a slightly secluded location in the forest southeast of the village. It can be reached via the Gerbersgipfel street . To the east of the path - outside of the village - there is an old sandstone quarry, above which is the cemetery.

history

The inscriptions on the preserved tombstones show that the cemetery was used between 1760 and 1910. The deceased from the communities of Breitenborn , Lieblos , Gettenbach , Mittel-Gründau , Niedergründau and Roth were buried in the cemetery. From the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century there were many Jewish inhabitants in the village of Gettenbach (1786: 92 = almost ⅔ of the total of 145 inhabitants; 1790: 62 = 23% of 273 inhabitants in total; 1835: 44, about 20% of the population ); Already at the beginning of the 19th century there is said to have been a synagogue in the village, which has two stately courtyards and 20 houses . In any case, as early as 1828, the community elder Jonas Grünebaum applied for the employment of a teacher for the ten school-age children. In the 1850s and 1860s, teacher Baruch Strauss from Lieblos gave religious instruction ; the Jewish community is said to have had over 50 members at that time. Jewish Germans who were born in Gettenbach died as soldiers in the First World War . The burial place was also used for Jews who were born in Gettenbach but died elsewhere.

investment

The cemetery had no fencing and a metal fence has recently been erected. About 20 sandstone tombstones with Hebrew (and German inscriptions for those who were last buried) have been preserved.

literature

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Gettenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Ernst Fabri : New geographical magazine. Third volume, first piece. Orphanage Publishing House, Halle 1786 p. 290
  2. ↑ JDA Hoeck (1763–1839; later spelling: Johann Daniel Albrecht Höck), historical-statistical topography of the county of Oberisenburg , Jäger, Frankfurt am Main 1790
  3. ^ Johann Heinrich Cassebeer Description of the agricultural business district Gelnhausen, keyword "Gettenbach" in: Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung für Kurhessen, Kassel, February, 1827 , p. 60 ff.
  4. ↑ Documented for 1858 in the statistical survey compiled by Mayor Ewig (Breitenborn AW) by Breitenborn Amts Wächtersbach from February 4, 1858 (transcription by Wilfried Günther on the basis of the document H3 82 Wächtersbach in the Hessian State Archives Marburg ), in: Grindaha Heft 21, annual books of the history association Gründau e. V., Gründau 2011, p. 6
  5. ^ Lieblos with Gettenbach, Niedergründau, Mittel-Gründau, Rothenbergen near Alemannia Judaica
  6. ↑ Jürgen Ackermann: Jewish schools in the Gelnhausen district in: Between Vogelsberg and Spessart, annual calendar for family and home in town and country between Vogelsberg and Spessart, Gelnhauser Heimat-Jahrbuch 1986, Gelnhausen 1985, pp. 87-92.
  7. ^ Tombs of the Gettenbach Jewish Cemetery .  Jewish graves in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ^ W. Friedrich: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Main-Kinzig-Kreis II.2 , p. 707 with further sources.

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 8.1 ″  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 56.6 ″  E