Jewish cemetery Roth (district of Weimar/Lahn)

The cemetery was the only plot in an otherwise unparceled area used as Huteland. The Roth municipality is entered as the owner in the associated cadastre, i.e. the site was merely made available for use by the Jewish community. No gravestones have survived from this earliest period. In the 19th century Roth, Fronhausen and Lohra formed a synagogue and cemetery community. In 1873, however, the Jews of Fronhausen established their own cemetery on the "Kratzeberg" in Fronhausen.  At the same time, the Rother community expanded the cemetery by more than double to 1646 square meters. During the Nazi period, many Jewish cemeteries were gradually closed and secularized. Thus also the Rother cemetery was closed in July  1939 by order of the Marburg district administrator. The deceased were then to be buried in the collective cemetery in Marburg.  The last to be buried in Roth was Betty Nathan née Stern, who died on April 29, 1939 at the age of 81. However, a gravestone for her does not exist.
Since 1940, the Jewish cemeteries were secularized. For this purpose they were to be divided into three parts: an older part, in which the lying periods of 30 years had expired, the part in use, in which the lying periods consequently still ran, and the unoccupied part, the stock land. The secularization of the Rother cemetery was pronounced in 1941. Subsequently, it was divided accordingly and the pieces were sold to three neighbors. It was expressly permitted to clear the part where the lying period had expired and to dispose of the gravestones elsewhere. Only special stones were to be secured.
In the Nazi era, gravestones were then cleared and the cemetery massively desecrated.