Until 1881 the dead of the Jewish community of Rappenau were buried in Heinsheim . Since then, there was a separate cemetery on Siegelsbacher Straße, 150 m behind the current municipal cemetery. The first person buried in the cemetery was Thekla Herbst (b. 1868, d. May 29, 1881; below tombstone no. 12)  
  
Three Polish prisoners of war and two children of Christian Russian forced laborers were also buried in the cemetery in 1944/45. The area of the cemetery is 4.79 a.

The mikvah in Griedel, a district of Butzbach in the Wetterau district of Hesse, was discovered in 1984. The mikvah at Bruderstraße 15, in the backyard of a larger residential building, is a protected cultural monument.

It is believed that the mikvah was created in the 19th century, when the property became Jewish property. The installation of the ritual immersion bath represents an independent structure made of basalt quarry stones and is not integrated into an existing building. The appearance is very similar to a vaulted cellar.