Wenkheim Jewish cemetery

The newer part of the Jewish cemetery in Wenkheim

The older part of the Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Wenkheim is a Jewish cemetery in Wenkheim , a district of the municipality of Werbach in Main-Tauber-Kreis in northern Baden-Württemberg .

At the end of the 16th century , a cemetery was set up east of the town in the Gewann Großer Wald , now directly on the border between Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria . The Jewish cemetery has an area of ​​55.80 ares and today there are 674 tombstones . The oldest gravestone is from 1714, the last burial took place in 1939.

The dead from Bavarian border communities, for example from Geroldshausen , Oberaltertheim and Unteraltertheim , were also buried in the cemetery .

See also

• Jewish community of Wenkheim
• Synagogue (Wenkheim)

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 Wenkheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 6 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 5 ″  E