Alemannia Judaica

The Jewish cemetery Hochberg is quite well researched. Because the desquamation of the soft sandstone progressed rapidly, the then municipality of Remseck am Neckar had a photo documentation made as early as 1982. The theologian Ulrike Sill then recorded all 246 gravestones and fragments between 1992 and 1998, recorded the inscriptions and made translations from Hebrew. In particular, she was assisted in this endeavor by Gil Hüttenmeister, a leading Judaist at the University of Tübingen.

"Judenbad" is the local name for the Friedberg mikvah. With its 25 meters depth and a square cross-section of 5.5 x 5.5 meters, it is the largest and most impressive mikveh in Germany. It is one of the few monumental mikvahs preserved from the Middle Ages.

Since only "living water," such as groundwater, is needed for a ritual bath, the shaft runs vertically through the basalt rock on which the town of Friedberg stands. The water can rise to a maximum of five meters and has a temperature of about 7.5°C.