Jewish cemetery Dreißigacker (Meiningen)

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The Jewish cemetery was established in the 17th century. On the oldest gravestone is the year 1665. 24 gravestones are preserved in the older (western) part of the cemetery (mostly from the 18th century). In the eastern part of the cemetery there are another 28 gravestones in two rows of graves. After most of the Jewish inhabitants had moved away from Dreißigacker until about 1880, no more burials took place in the cemetery. The cemetery area covers about 10 ar.

Jewish merchant and trade house Meiningen (1833)

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Since the beginning of the 18th century, the Jewish Strupp family had been based near the royal seat of Meiningen, in the neighboring village of Drei&szligacker. In the beginning, they were mainly active in the grain trade, but expanded their business to textiles, especially cotton, linen and silk. Since 1742 the Strupps were also active in banking. A two-story house with a garden in Dreißigacker served as the family's ancestral home. From 1825 at the latest, credit transactions with the ducal court were added, and so the banking house „B. M.