Jewish cemetery (Schweinfurt)

A medieval cemetery was originally located west of the city, since its expansion in 1437 within the walls, on today's street Am Jägersbrunnen. Also foreign Jews were buried here. Almost no traces of the medieval cemetery have survived. A gravestone found at the beginning of the 20th century, which was in the possession of the Jewish community, dated March 31, 1446, is in the Central Archives Jerusalem.
   
The Jews*Jews who moved back since the middle of the 19th century initially buried their deceased in Euerbach, Schwanfeld, Gerolzhofen and occasionally in Kleinsteinach, until a new cemetery could be established in Schweinfurt in 1874. On November 18, 1874 the cemetery was inaugurated with the burial of the child Max Salomon s.A.. The Jewish cemetery is a burial ground within the municipal cemetery (section 10). On three sides it is enclosed with a hedge. The fourth side of the rectangular area (which becomes somewhat narrower towards the top) borders on a path within the cemetery grounds. In addition to the children's graves and three soldiers' graves from World War I located at the upper edge, there are about 220 adult graves. Noticeable in the cemetery are many and large gravestones of family graves. The cemetery has also been occupied several times since 1945. The total area is 14,50 ares.