DISTRICT: Main-Tauber Kreis.

LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Gewann "Stadelhof" Weikersheim, (Detail).

IN USE: From 1730 until 1941.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 607.

DOCUMENTATION:

• 1989 photographs of all gravestones with mapping of graves by Zentralarchiv.
• 1999 complete cemetery documentation including above photographs by the Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt, ed. Guido Kleinberger).
• Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.

PUBLICATIONS:

• (LBI)
• 1 photographic overview of cemetery and 1 individual gravestone by Württemberg1932 page133.
• History by Schweizer 1924, page20.
• History by Fechenbach 1972, page17.
• History by Oberhollenzer 1982.
• Helmut Hermann: Zur Geschichte der Juden in Weikersheim (1637-1987) pub. 1989 (Sigmaringen) (LBI).
• Eva Maria Kraiss: Bet Hachajim - Haus des Lebens : juedische Friedhoefe in Wuerttembergisch Franken. Pub. Kuenzelsau 2003. 144 pages, chiefly colored ill. ISBN 3-89929-009-7 (LB).

NOTES:

• Prior to 1730, this community used the cemetery in Unterbalbach for burials (Sauer1966 page 189). Thereafter, a joint cemetery was established, together with the Jewish communities of Niederstetten and Laudenbach along the old road to Honsbronn, in the Gewann Stadelhof. From time to time the Jewish communities from bordering places like Bütthart, Tauberrettersheim, Gaukönigshofen, and Acholshausen also used this new cemetery, as well as the Allersheim cemetery. All of these cemeteries are in Bavaria.

SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Alemannia Judaica

(Researched and translated from German 2009)

To see information and photographs of individual gravestones in cemeteries in Baden-Wuerttemberg, click on this link and follow the directions on that page.