Weikersheim Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery in Weikersheim

The Jewish cemetery Weikersheim is a Jewish cemetery in Weikersheim , a town in the Main-Tauber district in northern Baden-Württemberg .

The dead of the Jewish community in Weikersheim were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Unterbalbach . In 1730 a separate cemetery was built on the road to Honsbronn in the Gewann Stadelhof . The Jewish cemetery was laid out together with the Jews in Niederstetten and Laudenbach . It has an area of ​​46.38 acres and today there are 607 tombstones . The oldest gravestone is from 1730, the last burial took place in 1941.

At times, Jewish communities in the Bavarian border area such as B. Acholshausen , Bütthard , Gaukönigshofen and Tauberrettersheim share the cemetery.

See also

• Weikersheim Jewish Community
• District rabbinate Weikersheim

literature

• Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).

Web links

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

• Weikersheim Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Weikersheim Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 50 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 7 ″  E