Cemetery

Aufseß is located in the middle of Franconian Switzerland on the Castle Road and the Franconian Beer Road. The river of the same name flows through the village. 
To the place belong today ten parts of the municipality.

The most famous cemetery in Prague is located in the old Jewish town, Josefov. It is nestled in the old town, surrounded by synagogues and old Jewish houses. It contains 12,000 gravestones dating from the 14th century to 1787, including those of Rabbi Löw, Mordechai Maisel and other famous people.

An endless stream of tourists winds üover the resting places of 200,000 people. They lie in several layers übereinander, angeschüttet, because no place was there.

No data have been preserved about the founding of the community.

The first written evidence of a permanent presence of Jews in Ermreuth dates from 1554, possibly after their expulsion from the imperial city of Nuremberg in 1498/99 some families had settled there. Only in the course of the 18th century did the community's population gradually grow, and in 1740 it established its first synagogue. A cemetery had already been established in 1711, which was expanded in 1797 and 1862. In 1834 followed its own school, which had to be closed due to the low number of students in 1916.

The cemetery was established at the instigation of the then Rabbi Elias Grünebaum. In the Middle Ages there had already been a cemetery, but it is no longer known where it was located. In the meantime, the Jews of Landau were mostly buried in Essingen near Landau. More than 800 Landau Jews are buried in the cemetery. There is an older part and a newer one. During the Nazi regime the Jewish communities were forced to sell their cemeteries to the respective municipality.

Alsenz is a small town in the Donnersbergkreis between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach.

From 1650 individual Jews settled in the village. In the middle of the 19th century, the community reached a strength of one hundred people. Due to rural exodus and moving to the cities, the number of Jews constantly decreased. At the time of National Socialism, only individual residents were left in the village.

In the village there was a synagogue with mikvah and school, in front of the village there was a cemetery.

The Jewish cemetery in Stralsund was acquired by the Stralsund synagogue community in 1850 and expanded in 1912. During the National Socialist regime, the Jewish community was forced to sell the cemetery to the city in the early 1940s. Until today, the cemetery remained intact. In 1956 it was transformed into a memorial site. In this process the gravestones were moved, as  it is still visible today. On 19.08.1997 the state association of the Jewish community of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern took over the cemetery. The last renovation took place between 2000 and 2008.

Hanover's Jewish community had grown considerably since the beginning of legal equality in 1842. Since the historical cemetery was no longer sufficient, it acquired a plot of land in the garden area far outside the city, today located in the middle of Hanover's Nordstadt. The new cemetery was solemnly consecrated in 1864. Its buildings on the street side - sermon hall, administration, mortuary and prayer hall - followed designs by the Jewish architect Edwin Oppler, who also built Hanover's New Synagogue at almost the same time.