The cemetery is located in the south of the city, above the Schustergasse, accessible via a forest path branching off from the street Vogelberg 
. The Jewish community of the town was able to establish a cemetery as late as the 17th century (around 1660), for which they had to pay (1728) an annual tax of 12 groschen. The cemetery area covers 18.00 ar. and is terraced. The wealthier Jews of the town were obviously buried on the lower four terraces. There are about 220 graves. The southern part of the cemetery adjoining the Bleichenröder forest merges into forest.

A prayer hall or synagogue was originally located in a house called "Judenbau", which was originally an inn and was inhabited by Jewish families. In 1842 a synagogue was built and inaugurated in 1846. The synagogue was located in the northern part of the massive, two-story building, adjoining it on the first floor was the apartment of the teacher and prayer leader. On the second floor was the Jewish school. The prayer hall had a women's gallery on three sides.

At first there was probably a prayer hall. In 1852 an "old synagogue" and a school are mentioned. They were located in the immediate vicinity of the old Jewish residential area (at the Zehnthof). In 1854 a new synagogue with a schoolhouse next to it was built and solemnly consecrated in the same year. The Jewish community had to raise about 7,000 guilders for the representative building. Around 1860, 45 children were taught in the Jewish school. In the synagogue there was a Torah shrine with six Torah scrolls. During the November pogrom in 1938 the synagogue remained undestroyed.

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.

The Jewish families initially lived together in a Jewish part of the village (in the area of the Zehnhof and Hinterdorf). However, they could use the local facilities such as wells, paths, bakehouse together with the Christians. In 1808, 19 Jewish families were counted in the village. They were under the protection of three different local rulers (14 families under the Imperial Knights of Stein, three under Old Wuerzburg rule and one family under the noble family of Kalb).

The Jewish religious school was located in the building of the synagogue, which was inaugurated in 1883. In 1898 it was attended by 58 Jewish schoolchildren.

In the 18th century a prayer hall was established in the area of the so-called "Judenbau". The synagogue is registered under No. 12 in the ... historical plan of Bauerbach.

In the 18th century, a prayer hall was established in the so-called "Judenbau."

The living quarters of the first Jewish families were the houses in the so-called Judenhof or Judenbau (early manor house), a district separated from the Christian living quarters. Even in 1851, two thirds of the Jewish inhabitants lived in the Judenhof.