Jewish cemetery (Passau - departed cemetery)

In Passau existed perhaps already at the end of the 1st millennium a Jewish community, which is mentioned documentarily however only 1204 and then again and again, so e.g. 1210, 1244 or 1260. They possibly buried their deceased in Regensburg. This is indicated by a document of 1311, according to which the Counts of Hals, keeper of Vilshofen, offered to escort the Passau Jews to Straubing for a fee of half a Passau penny and one pound of pepper for each dead person or one pound of pepper for each living person. The payment of Pfeffer suggests that the tariff for burial in Regensburg and the escort were based on long custom.A cemetery in Passau is attested only in 1418 and was located in the north of the city north of the Freyung at the "Oberhauser Leite" (today the area "Am Vogelherd"). After the "Judenmordprozess von Passau" and the associated murder and expulsion of the Jews in 1478, the cemetery was abandoned and probably destroyed. Today no traces are recognizable.In the 19th and 20th century there was no Jewish cemetery in Passau.