Cemetery

The cemetery is located west of the town center, within the municipal cemetery Sarresdorfer Straße (= B 410), not far from the church of the Redeemer

The first Jews settled in Bodenheim after the Thirty Years' War. Around the middle of the 19th century, the community comprised about 120 members, then their number declined due to emigration to about 45 in 1933.

The Jewish cemetery in Bodenheim was used from 1833 to 1937 . Today's cultural monument is located at the southwestern edge of the village, at the extension of the Ebersheimer Weg. The entrance is closed, but at various points through gaps in the hedge you can see the still 43 existing gravestones.

The cemetery was the only plot in an otherwise unparceled area used as Huteland. The Roth municipality is entered as the owner in the associated cadastre, i.e. the site was merely made available for use by the Jewish community. No gravestones have survived from this earliest period. In the 19th century Roth, Fronhausen and Lohra formed a synagogue and cemetery community. In 1873, however, the Jews of Fronhausen established their own cemetery on the "Kratzeberg" in Fronhausen.  At the same time, the Rother community expanded the cemetery by more than double to 1646 square meters.

The cemetery is located northeast of the city center, near the B 257 (Dauner/Wittlicher Straße), in the southeast corner of the cemetery on Erdofer Straße, direct access to the Jewish burial ground from Talweg.

On the cemetery, which was used only from the late 19th to the early 20th century, today there are only 5 gravestones (all in the form of obelisks), three with German inscription, dated 1900, 1904 and 1906, one with Hebrew and one without inscription. In memory of the victims of the Holocaust from Bitburg, a memorial plaque with 30 names was erected.

closed cemetery. one gravestone and fragments of 8 gravestones, one memorial stone

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According to Anke Geißler-Grünberg - University of Potsdam (Jewish Cemeteries in Brandenburg)

Name - date of death

Fließ, Jacob - 18.04.1869

Marcus, Fanziska - 10/26/1886

Fraenkel, Zipora - 08/20/1866

(...), Geraldine - no longer legible

Löwenthal, Bernhardt - no longer legible

Löwenthal, Rosalie xx.12.1890

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In 1830, a plot of land of about 1500 square meters on the town beach, at the "Kilianskammer", on today's street "Am Judenfriedhof", was acquired and the cemetery was established. He also served the Jews of the neighboring villages as a burial ground, today there are 99 tombstones preserved, making it the largest Jewish cemetery in the Schaumburg region.

The Jewish cemetery of Alpen is located at the Menzelner Strasse in the east of the Ulrichstrasse far outside the village. The place is laid out as a spacious lawn with surrounding hedge.

Occupancy was from 1792 to the year 1936. 56 gravestones are still preserved. Many gravestones were destroyed in the past.

The old Jewish cemetery existed since 1788. It was dissolved in 1938, because it had been occupied for a long time. The new cemetery next to the Christian municipal cemetery survived the time until today relatively unscathed. Today there are still 106 gravestones here.

The cemetery was located in front of the new gate at the time of its foundation. There are 57 gravestones on the site. The oldest dates from 1844, the youngest from 1937. In 1940, there were still 2 burials. Gravestones were not allowed to be placed at that time.