Cemetery

The Jewish Cemetery Hemsbach is a Jewish cemetery in Hemsbach, a town in the Rhine-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg. The cemetery is a cultural monument worthy of protection. The Jewish cemetery of Hemsbach was established in 1674. It is located east of the village on the Mühlweg. The dead from the villages in the area were also buried here.

In 1882 a cemetery of the Jewish community was established near the railroad line Jagstfeld - Osterburken a few hundred meters from the village. Here the Jews from Sennfeld and the neighboring communities of Adelsheim and Korb were buried. There are 128 gravestones documented in the archives. In addition, a memorial stone was erected for the Jewish soldiers who died in the 1st World War. 

Jews were buried here between 1905 and 1935.

The dead of the Jewish community Grötzingen were buried first in (Bruchsal-)Obergrombach, since about 1900 on an own cemetery in the Gewann "Junge Hälden" (today within a new development area). on this cemetery ("Judengottesacker" called) 13 gravestones (area 1.08 ar) can be found.

The Jewish cemetery in Bukhara is the oldest and the largest Jewish burial ground in Uzbekistan. Here, too, Sephardic graves are mixed with the flat scones and Ashkenazic graves with vertical stones. In the last time stones with the pictures of the deceased are added - for orthodox Jews an abomination. I have not found literature on the history and occupancy of the cemetery.

As early as the 5th century B.C., during the time of the Babylonian exile of the Jewish people, Jews migrated via Persia to Central Asia. They settled in Uzbekistan. Sephardic customs came to the country only in the 18th century through a traveling Jew. Ashkenazi Jews migrated to Uzbekistan from Germany and western Russia.

The language of Uzbek Jews is Bukharic. This dialect, mixed with Hebrew roots, was also spoken in synagogues and during ritual acts. Due to expulsion and emigration, the community in the city is small.

In 1656 Jews had again been allowed to settle in England. The first of them, Sephardic Marrans from the Netherlands, settled on the eastern edge of the city area, and there they established their first cemetery in Mile End, the 'Betahayim Velho', already in the following year, 1657. It was only about 0.6 hectares in size, and in view of the steadily growing congregation, it was foreseeable that its capacity would be exhausted in the not distant future.

During the Seven Years War Hanau was occupied by French troops. These threw out in March 1758 a rampart over the cemetery, which was in the way. The municipality was able to intervene at the last second and received permission to move the gravestones and dismantle the tahara house (= mortuary) so that even greater damage could be avoided. However, the fence and gate had already been destroyed and the excavated earth for the embankment was thrown out over the gravestones, which were now lying flat.

The Jewish cemetery in Hanau is located today between Mühltorstraße and Jahnstraße. He was not the first Jewish cemetery, however, the previous cemetery was destroyed in the course of the plague (mid-14th century) and it is notknown where this stood.