„Ein Stein für die Steine”

If one wants to remember dead loved ones, visit their graves, one places a stone on the grave. The message: The dead are not forgotten.

Shalom Europa invites to such a symbolic act of commemoration. The idea is to assist the Jewish Community of Wuerzburg and Lower Frankonia in providing a permanent place for the world’s largest collection of Jewish gravestones from medieval times. At the same time these gravestones help to revitalize a Jewish communty with a proud tradition such as in Wuerzburg.

The gravestones are relics of a Jewish cemetary which were rediscovered in 1987 in the remnants of a medieval nunnery in the Pleich quarter of Wuerzburg. Named after their place of discovery as „Judensteine aus der Pleich” they have become a fascinating focus of interest well beyond local and communal research.

More than 1500 of these stones from between 1126 and 1346 have been salvaged and by now been meticulously registered and cleaned. Their inscriptions – inspite of age and the history of past misuse of the stones– are surprisingly

Der FLYER "Ein Stein für die Steine"
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STATEMENTS Shalomeuropa
"Erwartungen und Hoffnungen"
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Dokumentation der Einweihung von
Shalom Europa am 23. Oktober 2006
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