The cemetery of Bigge

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The cemetery, dated 1873, is located at the end of the village next to a  federal road. There are still 25 gravestones. The cemetery was intended for the residents of Bigge. However, Jews from the surrounding villages were also buried.

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Otto Schwabe

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Otto Schwabe (born on October 2 1894 in Hanau; died on September 22 1937 ibid) was a German Jüdian physician well known in the city of Hanau, who met his death under unexplained circumstances after being arrested by the Gestapo . Schwabe came from a Jewish family long established in Hanau, whose origin was the house first mentioned in 1689 Zum Schwaben in Hanauer Judengasse (today Nordstraße).