DISTRICT: Kreis Hassberge.

LOCATION OF CEMETERY:

• From Ermershausen (A) to Maroldsweisach. At (B) turn right. The cemetery is on the edge of the woods.

IN USE: From 1832 until the Nazi period.

NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 226.

DOCUMENTATION:

• Numerous individual gravestone photographs and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judiaca.
• Gräberliste jüdischer Friedhof Ermershausen (Grave register by Susanne Rieger and Gerhard Jochem).

PUBLICATIONS:

• In Schwierz - refer to Sources below.
• Michael Trüger: Der jüdische Friedhof in Ermershausen, publ. Der Landesverband der Israelitischen. Kultusgemeinden in Bayern. 8. Jahrgang Nr. 58 in September 1993.
• Die Jüdischen Friedhöfe im Landkreis Hassberge - a booklet, including this cemetery, publ. by researcher Fr. Cordula Kappner, Mühlenweg 5, 97475 Zeil a. Main, Germany or here in pdf format

   

NOTES:

• The Jewish communties of Altenstein and Maroldsweisach also used this cemetery for burials
• This cemetery is enclosed by a stone wall, which bears, beside the wooden gate, a memorial plaque in memory and as a reminder of the former Ermershausen and Maroldsweisach fellow Jewiish citizens.

SOURCE: Alemannia Judaica and Schwierz, pages 54-55 (LBI).

(Researched and translated from German September 2009).