Alemannia Judaica

The Jewish community Neuwied maintained at the latest since the 17th century (probably 1629) a cemetery in today's Neuwied district Niederbieber. He was also used by the Jewish communities in the wider area as a burial ground.

The oldest gravestone that can be dated with certainty is from 1706. The cemetery was occupied until 1942. The cemetery area covers 111.94 (or 110.37) acres. A cemetery hall was present since 1908. It was severely damaged in the 1938 pogrom night; the ruin was demolished in 1947.

The Jewish cemetery in Obermoschel has existed since 1819. In 1868, the grounds were expanded. It was occupied until the 1930s. The cemetery plot has the shape of an almost equilateral triangle, each side 40 to 45 m long. The total area is 10.90 ares (first 5.80 ares, later extension area 5.10 ares). The preserved gravestones are distributed in seven rows of graves in the upper part. In a wreath below the grave rows fragments of gravestone bases and gravestones are deposited.

An old Jewish cemetery is located in the area of Ringstraße - between Ringstraße and the city wall (parcels 306, 305). The cemetery was established in the 18th century and expanded in 1842. There are no gravestones preserved. The cemetery plot can be recognized by the chestnut trees. 

The new cemetery was established in 1908/1912, as the old one had become too small, and was occupied until 1939. Its area covers 5,6 ares or according to other information 6,28 ares.

After the cemetery in neighboring Gries was almost full, the Jewish community applied in 1820 to build a cemetery on a plot of land already acquired in Steinbach. In 1826 the cemetery could be opened. The information board at the cemetery itself mentions 1810 as the date of establishment.

The Jewish Cemetery Worms-Pfeddersheim was established in 1832 and houses 65 preserved gravestones (Mazewot) from 1834 to 1937. It is located above the municipal cemetery on Leiselheimer Straße on a small hill and is a protected cultural monument. Its area covers 8.74 ar.

The Jewish cemetery was established in 1774 at the instigation of the court Jew Jacob Elkan. In 1775 it was first occupied by a deceased "little daughter" of Jacob Elkan. In 1805 Jacob Elkan was buried. In 1808 Gabriel Ulmann (1743-1816) added another plot to the cemetery area. After the last burial of Caroline Elkan in 1890, whose heirs moved to England, the cemetery fell into disrepair. Already in the early 1930s the gravestones - partly smashed - lay on the ground. 

Until 1881 the dead of the Jewish community of Rappenau were buried in Heinsheim . Since then, there was a separate cemetery on Siegelsbacher Straße, 150 m behind the current municipal cemetery. The first person buried in the cemetery was Thekla Herbst (b. 1868, d. May 29, 1881; below tombstone no. 12)  
  
Three Polish prisoners of war and two children of Christian Russian forced laborers were also buried in the cemetery in 1944/45. The area of the cemetery is 4.79 a.

The mikvah in Griedel, a district of Butzbach in the Wetterau district of Hesse, was discovered in 1984. The mikvah at Bruderstraße 15, in the backyard of a larger residential building, is a protected cultural monument.

It is believed that the mikvah was created in the 19th century, when the property became Jewish property. The installation of the ritual immersion bath represents an independent structure made of basalt quarry stones and is not integrated into an existing building. The appearance is very similar to a vaulted cellar.

The mikvah is located in the basement vault of the house Kornmarkt 22, a building that was used by the Jewish community in the town of Herborn (today: Lahn-Dill district, in Hesse) from 1677 to 1875. Here were also the synagogue and the schoolroom of the Jewish community.

The mikvah in Diersburg, a district of the municipality of Hohberg in the Ortenaukreis region of Baden-Württemberg, was located in a building at Talstraße 30 above the Mühlbach stream.