Old Jewish cemetery (Hostouň)

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 44 ″  N , 14 ° 11 ′ 14 ″  E

Old Jewish cemetery (Hostouň)​

Czech Republic

Old Jewish cemetery in Hostouň

The Old Jewish Cemetery was until 1850 the cemetery of the Jewish community of Hostouň (German Hostaun ), a Czech community in Okres Kladno . It is a listed building.

Geographical location

The old Jewish cemetery of Hostouň is located about one kilometer southwest of Hostouň on the south bank of the Sulovický potok. It is on a wooded slope.

Gravestone in the old Jewish cemetery in Hostouň

history

There were Jews in Hostouň since the 16th century. The Jewish community they formed grew to 64 families by the 19th century.

→ Main article : Jewish community (Hostouň)

The old Jewish cemetery had an area of ​​0.12 hectares. Around 50 late baroque and classicist tombstones from the 18th and 19th centuries have survived. In 1947 there were still 70 tombstones. The cemetery is one of the most valuable in the Kladno region. The oldest gravestone dates from 1786. The cemetery was used until 1848 when it was replaced by a new cemetery .

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).

Web links

Commons : Old Jewish Cemetery (Hostouň)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Obec Hostouň at hostounuprahy.cz. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} starý židovský hřbitov at pamatkovykatalog.cz. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
3. ↑ Hostouň, Jewish cemeteries at mapy.cz. Retrieved January 4, 2020
4. ↑ Kladno (Bohemia) at jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
5. ^ Hugo Gold : The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present