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Laudenbach
(heute: Stadt Karlstadt)
Main-Spessart (Unterfranken)
 
On the crossing of Brunngrabenweg / Rathausstraße of the former independant community of Laudenbach, there is a war memorial for the fallen and missing soldiers of the two World Wars in form of a chapel.

On the left side of the complex (next to a wooden group of sculptures), below the inscription: ES SIND GEFALLEN and the date 1914-1918 (written around an Iron Cross), you will find - among the names of the fallen citizens - the following Jewish-German soldiers:

 
 
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MAX HIRSCH 14.8.14
RUDOLF BERNEI 14.10.14
SIEG. ROTSCHILD 26.2.15
AMSON BIRK 25.9.16

below that:

ES SIND VERSTORBEN:
ISIDOR BERNEI 30.1.15

Why the names of :

JOSEF EISEMANN
HERMANN HÄHNLEIN
SIEGFRIED LÖWENSTEIN
KARL ROSENTHAL
and
JULIUS SCHLOSS

are not commemorated is unknown.
Opposite of this memorial on the other side of the road, on Rathausstraße, there is a further memorial for the combatants of the war in 1866 and 1870/71. Below the year 1866 and 1870/71, that are written in form of two military decorations, you find the inscription: Den tapferen Kriegern (to the brave combatants). Below that, there are three plaques - on the front side and on the two sides - that list the names of the combatants of the two wars, among them the Bavarian-Jewish soldiers:

 
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Frank, Hirsch 9. I.R. 1870/71.

On the base of the commemorative stone, you will find the inscription: Gestiftet vom Krieger- & Veteranenverein 1900 (donated by the Krieger&Veteranenverein 1900)

On the wrought-iron fencing, that shelters the memorial form the road, the dates 1909 1870/71 1844 (decorated with metal wreaths) can be found.