Old Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt

Coordinates: 50°07′56″N 8°41′22″E / 50.132343°N 8.689503°E / 50.132343; 8.689503

Main portal of the Old Jewish Cemetery

Grave of Louise and Mayer Carl von Rothschild

Grave of the Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich

Grave of the publisher Leopold Sonnemann

Grave of (1753–1849), wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family

The Old Jewish Cemetery of Frankfurt is located at Rat-Beil-Straße ("Councillor Beil Street") directly adjacent to the oldest parts of the gentile Frankfurt Main Cemetery. Together, Frankfurt Main Cemetery, the Old Jewish Cemetery and the constitute one of the largest cemetery areas in Germany. The Old Jewish Cemetery is noted for many monumental graves and includes the graves of many notable individuals. The Old Jewish Cemetery is the largest of Frankfurt's twelve Jewish cemeteries.

It was opened, together with the Main Cemetery, in 1828. By 1928, when the cemetery was closed for new graves because it was full, there were around 40,000 burials on the cemetery. Since 1928, interment has only been possible in already established (family) graves. In its place, the New Jewish Cemetery was opened in 1928.

Notable graves[]

Salomon Breuer (1850–1926), rabbi
Emma Budge (1852–1937), art collector and philanthropist
Leopold Cassella (1766–1847), businessman and founder of Cassella
Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), Nobel Prize laureate in medicine (block 114 N)^[1]
Ludwig Aaron Gans (1794–1871), businessman and owner of Cassella^[2]
Charles Hallgarten (1838–1908), banker and social reformer
Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), rabbi
Markus Horovitz (1844–1910), rabbi
(1777–1851), reform pedagogue and religious scholar
(1818–1877), banker
(1852–1923), historian
(1871–1922), rabbi
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800–1882), painter
Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), women's rights pioneer
(1845–1910), author
Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (1773–1855), banker and philanthropist
(1753–1849), wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family
(1850–1892), philanthropist
(1820–1894), philanthropist
Mathilde von Rothschild (1832–1924), philanthropist
Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820–1886), banker and politician
Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828–1901), banker and politician
(1803–1878), physician and poet
(1866–1922), architect
Leopold Sonnemann (1831–1909), publisher and founder of Frankfurter Zeitung
(1835–1902), banker
(1937–1900), banker and politician
(1869–1921), rabbi
Karl Weigert (1845-1904), pathologist

Literature[]

Victor von Brauchitsch, Helga von Brauchitsch: Zum Gedenken – Grabmale in Frankfurt am Main. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0354-4.
Peter Braunholz, Britta Boerdner, Christian Setzepfandt: Der Frankfurter Hauptfriedhof. Bildband. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1147-4.
Isidor Kracauer: Geschichte der Juden in Frankfurt a. M. (1150–1824). 2 vols., J. Kauffmann, Frankfurt am Main 1925/27.
Eugen Mayer: Die Frankfurter Juden. Blicke in die Vergangenheit. Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
Valentin Senger, Klaus Meier-Ude: Die jüdischen Friedhöfe in Frankfurt am Main. Fachhochschulverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-936065-15-2, pp. 10–20

References[]

^ According to Wegweiser zu den Grabstätten bekannter Persönlichkeiten auf Frankfurter Friedhöfen. Frankfurt am Main. 1985. p. 49.
^ Angela von Gans, Monika Groening: Die Familie Gans 1350–1963. Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89735-486-9

[1] According to Wegweiser zu den Grabstätten bekannter Persönlichkeiten auf Frankfurter Friedhöfen. Frankfurt am Main. 1985. p. 49.

[2] Angela von Gans, Monika Groening: Die Familie Gans 1350–1963. Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89735-486-9

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