TAUBERBISCHOFSHEIM incorporating HOCHHAUSEN. 49 ° 37 'N, 09 ° 40' E.17 miles SW of Wuerzburg, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Baden N..Tauberbischofsheim is a German town on the river Tauber with a population of about 13,000. The town was first mentioned in 836. Jewish population: 200 (in 1880), 106 (in 1933).
- Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 1299: "Tauberbischofsheim".
- Pinkas HaKehilot , Germany, Vol 2 (1986), p. 351: "Tauberbischofsheim".
- JewishGen GerSIG
97941 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters).
DISTRICT: Main-Tauber-Kreis.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY:
- I. Tauberbischofsheim Hochhäuser Straße (Detail).
IN USE: From 1875 until 1939.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 146.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1986 photographs of all gravestones with mapping of graves by Zentralarchiv.
- 1993 complete cemetery documentation including above photographs by the Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt, ed. Barbara Döpp). The site plan is dated 1976.
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Photographic overview of cemetery by Hundsnurscher/Taddey1968, fig.#202.
NOTES:
- Funerals for Tauberbischofsheim Jews ook place in Külsheim ((Hundsnurscher/Taddey1968, page269) up to 1876, when this cemetery had no longer any space. Following negotiations between the town council and the Jewish community of Tauberbischofsheim it was agreed to establish a Jewish section immediately adjoining the local non-Jewish city cemetery, for which the Jewish community had to pay, including the construction of a wall surrounding their own section. The Jewish section was dedicated by district Rabbi Flehingen from Merchingen in May 1876.
- The Jewish section was desecrated on 18 February 1931, when 6 gravestones were toppled and wantonly damaged and besmirched. A reward was offered for the apprehension of the culprits.
SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Alemannia Judaica.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY:
- II. Hochhausen - on the edge of a new housing estate An der Setz (Detail).
IN USE: From 1876 until 1934.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 27.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1988 photographs of all gravestones with mapping of graves by Zentralarchiv.
- 1993 complete cemetery documentation including above photographs by the Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt, ed. Barbara Döpp). The site plan is dated 1976.
- In 2007 the chief magistrate, Werner Schramm, presented a computer printout containing a copy of the 1993 complete cemetery documentation (above) including his own colour photographs of all gravestones and documents amongst which is a site plan.
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
NOTES:
- Prior to 1875 funerals for Hochhausen Jews took place in Külsheim (Hundsnurscher/Taddey1968, page271). From 1876 onwards the Jewish community of Hochhausen used their own cemetery An der Setz, situated west of the railroad station.
SOURCES: University of Heidelberg and Alemannia Judaica.
(Researched and translated from German January 2009)
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