Cemetery

The Jewish community in Geisa had a cemetery since the second half of the 18th century, which was expanded in 1857. The older part of the cemetery is located on a wooded hand with 27 still recognizable gravestones. The number of burials is assumed with about 200.

The New Jewish Cemetery is the cemetery of the Jewish community of Erfurt. It was established in 1871 after the old cemetery on Cyriaksstraße could no longer be expanded. It is located on the edge of the Steigerwald next to the Thüringenhalle, Werner-Seelenbinder-Straße 3, and is still used as a burial place today.

A Jewish community re-emerged in the city at the beginning of the 19th century, which was able to establish a cemetery in front of the Brühler Tor at the beginning of today's Cyriakstraße in 1811/12. The cemetery was occupied until the construction of the new cemetery in 1878. In 1926 the cemetery was severely desecrated. In the process, three youths of the "Wiking-Bund" toppled or severely damaged 95 of the 130 existing gravestones at that time (see reports below). In 1938 the cemetery was again vandalized. 

During excavations at a construction site in the area between Andreasstraße, Großer Ackerhofgasse and Moritzstraße, 20 more pieces of medieval Jewish gravestones were found, including the oldest surviving gravestone from 1259 for "Frau Dolze, Tochter des Herrn Ascher."  Erfurt now has a total of 58 Jewish gravestones and gravestone fragments from the Middle Ages. Three of them are on display in the Old Synagogue. The newly discovered pieces will initially be housed in the stone depot of the Angermuseum.

The Jewish community already had a cemetery in front of the Werna Gate in the 16th and 17th centuries. When this cemetery had become too small in the second half of the 18th century, the community acquired a plot of land in front of the Walkenrieder Tor in 1782. The last burial took place in 1915. The cemetery area covers about 25,00 ar. There are about 75 gravestones preserved. Many of them show traces of destruction and desecration. The memorial plaque located at the corner of Töpferstraße and Karlstraße was destroyed and removed in the 1990s, after which a new plaque was installed.

The Jewish cemetery was established in the 17th century. On the oldest gravestone is the year 1665. 24 gravestones are preserved in the older (western) part of the cemetery (mostly from the 18th century). In the eastern part of the cemetery there are another 28 gravestones in two rows of graves. After most of the Jewish inhabitants had moved away from Dreißigacker until about 1880, no more burials took place in the cemetery. The cemetery area covers about 10 ar.

The cemetery is located in the south of the city, above the Schustergasse, accessible via a forest path branching off from the street Vogelberg 
. The Jewish community of the town was able to establish a cemetery as late as the 17th century (around 1660), for which they had to pay (1728) an annual tax of 12 groschen. The cemetery area covers 18.00 ar. and is terraced. The wealthier Jews of the town were obviously buried on the lower four terraces. There are about 220 graves. The southern part of the cemetery adjoining the Bleichenröder forest merges into forest.

The cemetery is located east of the old country road in the direction of Behrungen in the immediate vicinity of the border with Bavaria (1949 to 1990 located on the border fence of the former GDR). The dead of Berkach's Jewish community were buried in Kleinbardorf from the time of the first settlement of Jewish persons in the village around 1700 until after 1820. After 1820, the Berkach community was able to buy a plot of land above the "Rothrasen" and establish its own cemetery there.

The Jewish cemetery could be established by the Jewish community Barchfeld already in 1686. At that time, the landgravine Hedwig Sophie von Hessen gave her patron Jews a piece of land for a burial ground at the "Fischertor" located near the village. In 1714 the cemetery was extended for the first time. The Jews had to pay an annual fee of 2 talers as a hereditary lease. In addition, the burial fee for adults was 1 thaler 12 groschen, for children half the price. In 1741 the cemetery was fenced in. A second time the cemetery was enlarged in 1786 by a "sixteenth acre", a third time in 1803.

Also a Jüdischer cemetery was present, which lay on the „Jüdenhügel". The way to the Jüdischen cemetery led according to the Überlieferung through the „Klagetor" named accordingly.