DISTRICT: Würzburg (Wuerzburg).

LOCATION OF CEMETERY: on Am Trieb street (A) actual location 30 yds further, on the right (Detail).

IN USE: From 1821 - oldest gravestone dated 1824.

NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: More than 300 gravestones, many very old.

DOCUMENTATION:

• Numerous individual gravestone photographs and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.

• Jüdische Friedhöfe in Bayern publ. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte - click on Höchberg.

PUBLICATIONS:

• Israel Schwierz: Steinerne Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Bayern - refer to Sources below.

• Michael Trüger: Der jüdische Friedhof in Höchberg, publ. Der Landesverband der Israelitischen. Kultusgemeinden in Bayern. 14. Jahrgang Nr. 61 March 1994 page 19.

• Naftali Bar-Giora Bamberger: Der jüdische Friedhof in Höchberg. Memor-Buch (Schriften des Stadtarchivs Würzburg, Vol. 8). publ. F. Schoeningh, Würzburg 1991, 455 pages ill. (LBI).

• Theodor Harburger: Die Inventarisation jüdischer Kunst und Kulturdenkmäler in Bayern. publ.by Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem and the Jüdischen Museum Franken-Fürth & Schnaittach. Fürth 1998 vol. 2; for Höchberg see page 296 (LBI).

NOTES:

• The cemetery grounds were acquired in 1821 and extended in 1875. The Höchberg community used the Allersheim Jewish cemetery for their burials prior to 1882/83. A dry-stone wall surrounds the cemetery, with a double iron gate. The Höchberg cemetery was the preferred final Place of Rest for the Rabbis of Würzburg.

• Desecration took place in 1938 and in 1994. The cemetery is well-tended.

SOURCE: Alemannia Judaica and Schwierz, page 71-72 (Schwierz LBI).

(Researched and translated from German November 2009)