Klein-Krotzenburg Jewish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery Klein-Krotzenburg was the cemetery for the inhabitants of the Jewish faith in Klein-Krotzenburg , a district of the municipality of Hainburg in the Offenbach district in Hesse .
Geographical location
The cemetery is located far south of the village. Although the property belongs to Fasaneriestraße , access is via Edisonstraße . Its current location seems somewhat wedged between the dog field and the grass race track.
history
Jewish residents of Klein-Krotzenburg are first mentioned in 1728. In 1913 the community had its own synagogue built after only a prayer room had previously existed. The first known burial in the cemetery took place in 1872.
At the beginning of 1931 the first cemetery desecration took place, during which seven tombstones were overturned. The last burial dates from 1935.
investment
The cemetery covers an area of 419 m² and is surrounded by a sandstone wall. The entrance with a wrought iron gate is on the grass runway to the west. 28 tombstones have been preserved, some overturned, most of them with Hebrew inscriptions.
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 am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 , p. 449.
- Dagmar Söder: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Offenbach district. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-528-06237-1 (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany ), p. 163.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ P. Arnsberg: The Jewish communities in Hesse. P. 449.
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 41.9 ″ N , 8 ° 57 ′ 40.5 ″ E