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.

In the 18th century a first synagogue was built, about which nothing else is known. It had become too small around 1840, so a new one was built in 1844/45, which was consecrated on September 19, 1845. In 1879 a part of the building was destroyed by fire. However, it was not necessary to renew the whole building and the synagogue was consecrated again on August 20, 1880. In the meantime, people prayed in a rented room. In 1904 and 1907 the synagogue was modernized, in the latter year electric lighting was introduced. In 1922 the community renewed the synagogue roof.

In 1836 a local public Jewish school was founded, for which a schoolhouse was built in 1841/42 on the lower moat. In this also a Mikwe was built in.

The Jewish cemetery could be established by the Jewish community Barchfeld already in 1686. At that time, the landgravine Hedwig Sophie von Hessen gave her patron Jews a piece of land for a burial ground at the "Fischertor" located near the village. In 1714 the cemetery was extended for the first time. The Jews had to pay an annual fee of 2 talers as a hereditary lease. In addition, the burial fee for adults was 1 thaler 12 groschen, for children half the price. In 1741 the cemetery was fenced in. A second time the cemetery was enlarged in 1786 by a "sixteenth acre", a third time in 1803.