Old Jewish cemetery (Ober-Ingelheim)

Entrance to the old Jewish cemetery in Ingelheim am Rhein

Tombstones

The Jewish cemetery in Ingelheim am Rhein , a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate , was laid out in 1836. The over ten ares large Jewish cemetery is located on Hugo-Loersch-Strasse in the Ober-Ingelheim district .

In 1876 the cemetery was walled. Today 143 tombstones from the period from 1841 to 1938 are still preserved. The cemetery has a diverse grave design with gable roofing, urn crowning and Levite hands . There is also an obelisk made of black granite and a stele with Art Nouveau ornamentation .

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 (Ingelheim am Rhein)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jewish cemeteries in Ingelheim am Rhein near Alemannia Judaica
• Old Jewish cemetery in Ingelheim am Rhein at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 16.5 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 30.4 ″  E