Israelitischer Friedhof Basel

Israelitischer Friedhof Basel

The Israelitische Friedhof Basel is a Jewish cemetery in Basel . It was inaugurated in August 1903 and is located near the French border in the west of the city on Theodor Herzl- Strasse. Since the Jewish law demands eternal rest for the dead and a Jewish cemetery must never be closed, it was not until 1902 that Basel Jews were granted the right to their own cemetery.

The Israelite Cemetery in Basel has already been expanded several times, has an abdication hall from 1969 and offers space for around 4800 graves, of which around 3700 are currently occupied. The administration of the Israelite Cemetery in Basel is the responsibility of the Israelite Community of Basel, IGB, which is also the owner.

history

Israelitischer Friedhof Basel

In the Middle Ages there were already Jewish cemeteries in Basel. The first was mentioned for the first time in 1264 in a deed of sale from St. Peter's Abbey. Preserved gravestones prove that it existed for a long time. It was located between the Gnadental monastery at that time and today's Petersplatz , roughly on the site of the Vesalianum and the college building of the University of Basel. It was destroyed in the course of the Basel Jewish pogrom in 1348.

The cemetery of Basel's second Jewish community was laid out in 1394 in front of what was then the Spitalschürentor, around today's Hirschgässlein (behind the Aeschengraben 18, 20 and 22 properties); its short-lived existence (the Jews left the city in 1397 because of renewed hostility), however, has not yet been proven by archaeological findings. From 1673 to 1903 the Basel Jews had to bury their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Hégenheim in Alsace .

See also

• Synagogue Basel
• Basel cemeteries

literature

• Christoph Philipp Matt: The medieval Jewish cemetery under the Kollegienhaus. A witness from the Jewish community in Basel. In: Basler Stadtbuch 2003 , Vol. 124, pp. 142–146.
• Christoph Philipp Matt, Cornelia Adler: Spotlight - archaeological excavations at the first Jewish cemetery in Basel . In: Heiko Haumann (Ed.): Eight centuries of Jews in Basel. 200 years of the Basel Israelite Community . Schwabe AG, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-7965-2131-2 , pp. 57-61.

Web links

Commons : Israelitischer Friedhof Basel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Jewish cemeteries in Basel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ITUC - Cemetery and Chewra Kadisha ,
2. ↑ altbasel.ch, The Basler Jews in the Middle Ages, as of June 18, 2009

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 1 "  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 32"  E ; CH1903:  609 047  /  268491