Jewish cemetery Bauerbach (grave field)

The cemetery is located east of the old country road in the direction of Behrungen in the immediate vicinity of the border with Bavaria (1949 to 1990 located on the border fence of the former GDR). The dead of Berkach's Jewish community were buried in Kleinbardorf from the time of the first settlement of Jewish persons in the village around 1700 until after 1820. After 1820, the Berkach community was able to buy a plot of land above the "Rothrasen" and establish its own cemetery there. According to the community's statutes of 1885, Jews not belonging to the Berkach community were also allowed to be buried here. It was stipulated that in this case 25 marks had to be paid, but "in case of insufficient means" the amount could also be reduced. The older gravestones were all inscribed in Hebrew. For the first time there is an additional inscription in German on Anschel G. Frank who was buried in December 1855. According to a recent documentation there are 145 gravestones in total. On some, especially older graves the stones are missing. The cemetery was desecrated during the November pogrom in 1938. In 1991 the gravestones were erected by workers of a job creation program of the Meiningen District Office. Also the fence was renewed and a new entrance gate was set.