Three rare ceramic tombstones have been reinstalled in the historic Jewish cemetery in Tata following their restoration, carried out as part of a general ongoing project to restore. maintain, and document the cemetery.
The three grave markers belonging to Áron Mózes Fischer (1796-1861) and members of his family were dismantled and removed on December 18, 2025.
They were reinstalled at a ceremony June 22, organized by the Goldberger Foundation in Tata, which is responsible for the preservation and care of the town’s Jewish cultural heritage.
Áron Mózes Fischer ran a stoneware and ceramic stove factory in Tata from 1824 to 1913, and his sons were also involved in the ceramics business. He was a relative of Mór Fischer, one of the founders and longtime director of the famous Herend Porcelain works, who in 1869 was raised to the ranks of the Hungarian nobility by Emperor Franz Josef I; he took the noble name Farkasházi.
The restoration, carried by the stone restorer Kornélia Hajtó, took place within the framework of a four-party agreement among the Tata City Government, the Hungarian Jewish umbrella organization MAZSIHISZ, the Herend Porcelain Manufactory. and the Goldberger Foundation.
The Tata Jewish cemetery is one of the oldest in Hungary, with the oldest Jewish gravestone — dating from 1740 — in its original place.
At the Foundation’s initiative, a full documentation of the cemetery’s gravestones and epitaphs was carried out in 2022- 2023, and can be fully accessed as an online PDF book. Restoration work includes the restoration of the preburial house.
Read our post from January describing the restoration project
Read about the reinstallation on the Tata city web site and see pictures
Download the book with full documentation of the cemetery