Cemetery

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.

Since the early 17th century, Jewish families can be traced in Anholt, a small town on the Lower Rhine.

A synagogue in the town was consecrated in 1831. It fell victim to the war.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish community disappeared due to emigration from Anholt.

The cemetery at the Dwarsefeld was used from the beginning of the 19th century. The last burial took place in 1934.

Today there are still 17 gravestones on the site

The cemetery exists since 1815.  The last burial took place in 1884 stett. Before the Jewish community bought it, there were mulberry trees on the property. The cemetery is surrounded by a brick wall, an iron gate closes the access. Today there are still about 300 gravestones on the site.

Brady Street runs between Whitechapel and Bethnal Green stations. From Whitechape, turn left before the station and follow Whitechapel Road out of town a few steps to the first side street on the left, this is Brady Street. You pass a school on the left side of the street and on this side you see a high perimeter wall topped by trees, behind which is the cemetery.

Coming from Bethnal Green, turn left and follow Three Colts Lane statdteinwärts. After a few steps Brady Street branches off to the left.

Since 1843, the West London Synagogue owned a cemetery in Islington, but towards the end of the century it was fully occupied. Therefore one acquired 1894 in Golders Green, at that time far outside convenient and before building of the subway there 1907 still little developed, an extensive area of approx.  16,5 hectares, probably too largely for the own need, because  already before the opening of the own cemetery 1896 one sold scarcely half of the reason to the Spanish-Portuguese Sephardi congregation.

The cemetery, first mentioned in 1804, may have originated as early as the 17th or 18th century.  After 1933 - and especially in the wake of the 1938 pogroms - it was repeatedly desecrated, and in 1950-52 some gravestones were put back in place. It was not until 2006 that a group of students from the local gymnasium began a thorough restoration: stones were placed as far as possible, gravestone debris was collected, and the entire site was restored to a suitably dignified condition.

The cemetery was established in 1819/20, today there are about 300 graves preserved, plus the Tahara Hall.  The graves occupy only the third of the walled cemetery far from the entrance. The entrance gate is closed, the enclosing wall can be overlooked at various points.