{"id":1472,"date":"2021-01-17T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T10:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/?page_id=1472"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:12:41","slug":"der-alte-juedische-friedhof","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/en\/der-alte-juedische-friedhof\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Jewish Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

History of the old Jewish Cemetery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulda\u2019s Jewish cemetery is first mentioned in a document from 1442<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a hundred years later, a view of the residential city of Fulda <\/strong>by Hans Brosamer, in Sebastian M\u00fcnster’s Cosmographia Universalis from 1550, permits us for the first time to identify the Jewish cemetery <\/strong>(see below) as part of the overall plan of the city. We can recognize its location across from the Spillings Tower outside the city wall and in close proximity to the medieval Centgerichtplatz. Its perimeter and a small house at its eastern end can also be identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View of the residential city of Fulda by Hans Brosamer, in Sebastian M\u00fcnster’s Cosmographia Universalis, the old jewish cemetery is marked; image source lagis-hessen.de<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 1671<\/strong>, Fulda\u2019s Abbot Bernhard Gustav, decreed that all Jews, except five families, were to be expelled <\/strong>from the royal-bishopric of Fulda. In the course of this expulsion, the Jewish cemetery was confiscated and the five remaining members of the Jewish community were assigned burial plots at the Peterstor behind the Ziegelh\u00fcttengarten (today Nikolausstrasse between Lindenstrasse and Heinrichstrasse).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulda\u2019s Jewish community, in a petition dated September 24, 1685,<\/strong> reported that the burial place at Peterstor had become too small due to the renewed growth of the Jewish community. Their request to return to the original burial site was granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The area of the cemetery was expanded several times during the years 1823, 1825 and 1861 <\/strong>and Jewish community was granted permission to build a wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1906<\/strong>, what is now known as the \u201cold Jewish cemetery,\u201d was closed and the one on Edelzeller Strasse was established as a new burial ground for Fulda\u2019s Jewish community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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