Cemetery

The Judensand is one of the ältesten Jüdischen Friedhöfe Europe. A tombstone found there dates to the year 1049 - it is exhibited with permission of the Jüdische Gemeinde Mainz in the Landesmuseum Mainz.
With the banishment of the Jüdinnen*Juden from Mainz in 1438, the cemetery was destroyedürt and partly used as a vineyard. Gravestones were used as building material for buildings in the city.

From about 1700, part of the medieval cemetery area was again used for Jewish burials. It is the lower part, which borders on the Mombacher Stra&szlig.

Near the old city Röbel is said to have been already around the year 1200 a Jewish cemetery. However, reliable data are missing.

As a cemetery in 1700 an area of about 33 square meters on the Mirower Straße, in front of the former city wall, was purchased and some decades later eingezäunt. At the beginning of the 19th century, due to the increasing number of members of the community, the cemetery had to be extended, as the area was no longer sufficient for burials. Records of the burials have not been preserved. The last burial took place in 1937.

The Jüdische cemetery Rimbeck was created in 1875, but probably already occupied since 1870 and then used until 1933.

On the approximately 1,300 m² large cemetery have been buried 65 Jews, including the journalist Felix Fechenbach. Most of the graves date from around 1900, and there is no information about the number of preserved gravestones.

Today it is a monument.

Immediately after moving to Wankheim in 1776, four to five Jewish families leased a site outside the village. The site was and is located on the boundary of the district near today's B28 in the area "Schinderklinge". The name indicates that slaughterhouse waste had previously been disposed of there.

The annual rent was three gulden plus for each adult burial two gulden and each child under 14 years one gulden. Only after protracted negotiations could the site be acquired by the Jewish community on March 7,1845, in return for a payment of 200 gulden.

Enclosed cemetery with gravestone inventory. 155 recorded graves/stones.

According to an old document from 1766, the cemetery should have been established already "one hundred years ago", i.e. around 1666. This would probably correspond approximately to the first immigration of Jews in the village. The oldest preserved gravestone, however, dates from 1761. Since late summer 1920 there has been a memorial stone in the center of the cemetery for the two fallen soldiers of the First World War of the Oerlinghausen synagogue community: Albert Kulemeyer (1918) and Ernst Joachim Meyer (1914). The last burial took place in 1937.