Jewish cemetery Wertheim

Jewish cemetery Wertheim

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

The cemetery of the Jewish community in Wertheim was laid out in the Middle Ages , as the oldest surviving tombstone from 1405 attests. The cemetery is located on the Schlossberg opposite the Main Bridge and has an area of ​​73.44 acres . Today there are still 498 tombstones and the last burial took place in 1938.

This cemetery is the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Baden-Württemberg and was used until the 20th century.

See also

• Jewish community of Wertheim
• Synagogues in Wertheim

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 Wertheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 34.8 "  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 24.7"  E