Old Jewish Cemetery (Nuremberg)

Old Jewish cemetery in Nuremberg, 2011

The old Jewish cemetery is one of two surviving burial sites of the Israelite religious community in Nuremberg . The cemetery was occupied from 1864 to 1922.

location

The cemetery is located between Bärenschanzstrasse 40 and Reutersbrunnenstrasse in the Gostenhof district . The cemetery, which is guarded by cameras, is not open to the public, but can be viewed from several sides.

history

Ruin of the Tahara House, 2011

Old Jewish cemetery in Nuremberg, 2011

Old Jewish Cemetery in Nuremberg, 2012

Between February 20 and March 10, 1499, all Jews had to leave the city of Nuremberg. The city council bought all the houses of Jews, the synagogue, the cemetery and all the underlying land for 8,000 guilders. The town architect at the time had around 3,000 gravestones from the Jewish cemetery in the area from Vorderen Beckschlagergasse via Münzgasse / Münzplatz to today's Äußere Laufer Gasse. These stones were partially incorporated into the foundation of the toll hall . For around 350 years, until 1850, there were no citizens of the Jewish faith in Nuremberg.

With 9 against 8 votes, the city magistrate decided in 1850 to allow Jews to be citizens of Nuremberg. The 350-year-old ban was broken and the Jew Josef Kohn from Markt Erlbach was allowed to take up residence in Nuremberg. In the same year, the Interior Ministry approved the admission of Jews. There were no more fundamental difficulties for further immigration of Jews.

The deceased of the growing Jewish community were first buried in the old Jewish cemetery in Fürth . Some of the deceased children of Nuremberg Jews were buried in the city cemeteries. This practice was banned by the Protestant church leadership in 1857. From 1860 there were efforts to build a new Jewish cemetery.

The cemetery on the so-called Bleiweisacker at Bärenschanzstrasse 40 was inaugurated on February 28, 1864 with the burial of Jakob Hirsch Marschütz. Around 2,225 people were buried here until it was closed in 1922. The cemetery was desecrated before the Nazis came to power. In February 1943, all metal attachments were removed from the graves and tombstones, including name plates and metal letters. The Tahara house and several hundred graves were destroyed in the air raid on January 2, 1945 .

In 1905 the Jewish community of Nuremberg purchased a piece of land on Schnieglinger Strasse to build the New Jewish Cemetery , which has been occupied since 1910.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg: history in years . As of May 2, 2016.
2. ↑ Alemannia Judaica : Nuremberg - The old Jewish cemeteries up to the 19th century . As of April 6, 2011.

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 14 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 13 ″  E