LISBERG: 96170 Bavaria, Upper Franconia (Gerz, Peters).

DISTRICT: Bamberg.

LOCATION OF CEMETERY: From Lisberg (A) direction Frenshof, along footpath to (B)

IN USE: From 1739 until 1936 (last funeral).

NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 139.

DOCUMENTATION:

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

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

PUBLICATIONS:

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

• Michael Trüger: Der jüdische Friedhof in Lisberg, publ. Der Landesverband der Israelitischen. Kultusgemeinden in Bayern - click on Friedhöfe and Lisberg.

• Johann Fleischmann: Mesusa: Spuren juedischer Vergangenheit an Aisch, Aurach, Ebrach und Seebach. Die jüdischen Friedhöfe von Zeckern, Walsdorf, Aschbach, Uehlfeld, Mühlhausen, Lisberg, Burghaslach und Reichmannsdorf. Documentation for Lisberg on pages. 279-308, publ. Arbeitskreis "Juedische Landgemeinden an Aisch, Aurach, Ebrach und Seebach", 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 (LBI).

• Klaus Guth in collaboration with Eva Groiss-Lau and Ulrike Krzywinski: Juedische Landgemeinden in Oberfranken (1800-1942) : ein historisch-topographisches Handbuch, publ. Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg, 1988, 416 pages, illustr. (LBI).

NOTES:

• Prior to having their own burial site, the cemetery in Walsdorf was used by this Jewish community.

• The cemetery is enclosed by a wire-mesh fence and a thick evergreen hedge. There is an iron gate. Only the foundations of the old mortuary together with the stone mortuary table remain in place.

• Desecration took place in 1938, when most gravestones were uprooted.

SOURCE: Alemannia Judaica and Schwierz, page 228 (Schwierz LBI).

(Researched and translated from German April 2010).