Jewish cemetery in Niedermittlau

The Jewish cemetery in Niedermittlau was the cemetery for the inhabitants of the Jewish faith in Niedermittlau , a district of the Hasselroth community in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

Jewish cemetery in Niedermittlau 2015, rear part

Geographical location

The cemetery is on the south-eastern edge of the town between Stichelstraße / L3269 and Altenmittlauer Weg . The entrance is on the north side facing the main street.

history

The age of the Jewish cemetery is unknown. It served the synagogue community of neighboring Meerholz as a burial place, which was founded around 1700. The community also included the Jews from Gründau and Somborn before these communities became independent in 1853 and 1877, as well as those from Hailer , Haitz and Niedermittlau. It can therefore be assumed that the cemetery has existed as a community cemetery since the beginning of the Meerholz community in the first half of the 18th century.

The cemetery was expanded in 1888 and surrounded by a stone wall in 1890. A plan of the expansion has been preserved in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg . In 1932/33 only three Jewish families lived in Niedermittlau. The last burial took place in the summer of 1937 ( Ernestine Hirsch ).

During the November pogroms in 1938 , the cemetery was desecrated by Niedermittlau citizens and the tombstones were overturned. Part of the tombstones and the surrounding wall were reused to build the house. Some of them were salvaged in 1945 and then put up again. The cemetery was restored that year, using all former party members and members of National Socialist organizations on the instructions of the mayor. Another repair took place in 1980.

investment

The cemetery covers an area of ​​3265 m². It is not well looked after and overgrown by trees, especially in its older, front part. In place of the earlier quarry stone wall, a wooden fence was erected after 1945.

literature

• Paul Arnsberg : The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning - fall - new beginning. Volume II. Published by the regional association of Jewish communities in Hesse, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 1972, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 , p. 138.
• Waltraud Friedrich: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Main-Kinzig district II.2. Gelnhausen, Gründau, Hasselroth, Jossgrund, Linsengericht, Wächtersbach. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Theiss, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2469-6 , p. 790 (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ).

Web links

• The Jewish cemetery in Niedermittlau near Alemannia Judaica

Individual evidence

1. ^ W. Friedrich: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Main-Kinzig district II.2. , P. 790; Alemannia Judaica .
2. ↑ Marburg State Archives; Inventory 180 / Gelnhausen No. 4784; Description and plan .
3. ^ P. Arnsberg: The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning - fall - new beginning. Volume II. , P. 138

Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '53.3 "  N , 9 ° 7' 46.4"  E