Jewish cemetery Hagenbach

Hagenbach was in the first half of the 19th century one of the most important Jewish rural communities in Upper Franconia, until 1894 the seat of one of the five district rabbinates of the Bamberg State Rabbinate. At times, the Jewish community accounted for more than half of the village population.

The first settlement of Jews in Hagebach probably dates back to the time of the Thirty Years' War, in the following decades the sovereigns encouraged their settlement, and by 1730 there were already almost 30 families in the village.