The Rödelsee Jewish cemetery looks like an enchanted garden to visitors. How many untold stories are buried here?
At the foot of the Schwanberg, the cemetery covers almost 19,000 m2 and, with its 5,500 graves, is one of the largest surviving Jewish cemeteries in Germany. Surrounded by 600 m of enclosing walls, there are also seemingly empty areas. But there are also graves under these turfs. Nature defines this place. Because Jewish cemeteries are not abandoned, but remain for eternity. Over time, sun, wind, rain and snow decompose the gravestones and moss and lichen take possession of them. Stones that can no longer be assigned to a grave because their writing has weathered away remain as they are. They lie there, sunken and mysterious. This place holds magical moments.
