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Stylised wall painting with Hebrew script: Love your neighbour, for he is like you.

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Former Landsynagoge in Roth - memorial and place of encounter

Aerial view of the synagogue between half-timbered houses.The synagogue is supported by the Working Group Landsynagoge Roth. The association is committed to its preservation and use. It serves as a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and a learning center for children, young people, and adults. It hosts concerts, lectures, and other cultural events. Roth is a district of the municipality of Weimar in Hesse.

Description of the individual gravestones

You can call up the descriptions via the tabs! Attention: the site plan does not look from the gate.

Site plan from B. Wagner in: Wagner, Barbara u.a.: Die jüdischen Friedhöfe und Familien in Fronhausen, Lohra, Roth, Marburg 2009
The links lead to the website: LAGIS.

 

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The description of the cemetery can be found on the website of the  Landesgeschichtliche Informationssystem Hessen.

Roth's cemetery is located far outside the village on the ‘Geiersberg’ high above the Lahntal valley. 

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