Jewish cemetery (Kassel)

The first Jewish cemetery is said to have existed in Kassel as early as the Middle Ages. Around 1360, it was probably located on the Ahne, near the Judengasse. From 1385 to about 1587, there was a second cemetery on the site of today's Königsplatz.

During the time of the 30-year war (around 1630), the now still existing old Jewish cemetery was established in the Bettenhausen district. He was burial place also for the Jewish communities Kaufungen, Heiligenrode and Waldau. Until before the Nazi era, the graves from the middle of the 17th century to the middle of the 19th century were almost completely preserved. The newer part of the cemetery was donated to the Jewish community by Jeremias Rothfels in 1841. In the cemetery there is a memorial to the Jews from Kassel who died in World War I 1914-18.