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From La Revue du Cercle de Genealogie Juive, Summer issue, Jean-Pierre Bernard.
Pretty small cemetery has the origin installs in full shift but today "catches up with" by the communal allotment. Clean, without trees, but little maintained, it is invaded by tall grasses; however, the tombs are accessible. A brick wall and stones the clot entirely. The gate is fermee has key. It comprises approximately 150 tombs alignees out of five rangees. Certain plates are tombees and the steles covered with ground and grass. A former mayor of the commune (Solomon KAHN, 1832-1907) there east buries. Some steles carries the METZ patronym. The community undoubtedly possedait a register of burial because all the tombs are numerotees, by chronological order. It seems to have ete the object of an enlarging because a rupture in classification occurs to the 2/3 of the bottom. It is only in 1723 that a first Jew was authorized to settle in SCHIRRHOFFEN, but the cemetery was inaugurated only on October 21, 1881 and the premiere burial took place the following year. Before this date, the Jews of the village were buried in HAGUENAU, for example Raphael LEVY, other mayor of SCHIRRHOFFEN, (Fall 1856).