Jewish cemetery of Kleinbardorf
The Jewish cemetery in Kleinbardorf, a district of the municipality in Sulzfeld grave field in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön - grave field, was created in 1574.
Location and extent
The Jewish cemetery Kleinbardorf was created in 1574 on the then so-called Steep mountain or Wartberg southeast of Kleinbardorf. The Wartberg is now known in the area as Jews hills.
The cemetery covers an area of 21,050 square meters. 1987 counted about 4,400 Mazewot ( grave stones ), 1933 there were 20,000 graves. The cemetery is, according to the Jewish cemetery in Munich, the second largest Jewish cemetery in Bavaria.
The cemetery is located within an early medieval ring wall of about 1.5 kilometers in length.
History
In the family history of the Barons von Bibra is arrested for 1574 that Georg Christof von Bibra has the local Jewish families allowed at an annual interest rate is the use of the land as a cemetery. In addition, had to be paid for each funeral still a fee.
From a donor called Jospe (from) Neustatt 1696/97 was built a Taharahaus. It is provided with a stone roof and a stone basin. 1964 was, exemplary renovated by a Kleinbardorfer citizens Erwin Hermann.
1769 acquired the Jewish community Kleinbardorf the cemetery and advanced him. By a further land acquisition in 1843 it reached its present size .. The last burial of a Jew, Jacob Fleischhacker, 1938 took place.
The cemetery was founded in 1925, on several occasions, in 1957 and 1977 desecrated during the period of National Socialism. Numerous stones were smashed or overturned. The cemetery was renovated again and again. Today, the citizen who has also renovated the Taharahaus care to volunteer to taking care of the entire system, which is thus very well preserved. 1988, the citizens was recognized for his contributions to the cemetery with the Federal Cross of Merit.
In addition to the Jews in Kleinbardorf the cemetery other 27 neighboring Jewish communities served as a District cemetery, among other Bastheim, Oak Hausen, where about 30 kilometers away, DC Proven, Höchheim, Kleineibstadt, Bad Königshofen, Oberwaldbehrungen, Poppenlauer, Rödelmaier, Trappstadt, Unsleben, Maßbach and Oberlauringen. The graves Directory 1759-1938 and records of burials 1800-1938 are still preserved.
Special
Women's graves
Law of the southwestern entrance is a room with women's graves who died during or as a result of childbirth.
Cenotaph
In the cemetery is a memorial for Jewish casualties of the First World War.
Keltenweg
The 200 -kilometer Keltenweg leads through the cemetery.
Ring Wall
The cemetery is located within a 1.5 -kilometer ring wall and is bounded on the southwest by him. The ring wall was never excavated systematically on a large scale. Smaller excavations, comparisons with similar fixings and reading discoveries show that he is Ottonian and Carolingian origin with high probability and was built in the 9th century AD. He is in most places with a Vorgraben and partially with a overcast. The remains are still preserved on the outside up to ten feet high, on the inner side to about five meters. The Vorgraben is up to two meters deep. Whether the ring wall of the control of long-distance trade route Würzburg Erfurt served, and / or was a defense plant during the invasions of the Hungarians is not known.