Jewish cemeteries in Augsburg

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There are documented four Jewish cemeteries in the Bavarian city ​​of Augsburg .

Medieval cemetery

The medieval cemetery, which was near the apex of today's street "An der Blauenkap", no longer exists. It had its catchment area as far as Aichach , Lauingen and Donauwörth . In 1438/39 it was confiscated and cleared away. The tombstones were used to build the town hall. Two undated tombstones are still in the courtyard of a house at Peutingerstraße 11, as are two fragments of another tombstone in the Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg-Swabia . A park has been located on the area of ​​the former Jewish cemetery since 1897.

Jewish cemetery in Augsburg-Kriegshaber

The cemetery is located in today's Augsburg district of Kriegshaber in Madison- / Hooverstr. 15. Burials took place in this cemetery from 1623 to 1951. It was also used by the Jews from Steppach , Munich (until 1868), Pfersee , Schlipsheim , Fischach and Augsburg. The cemetery was expanded in 1695 and 1722.

In 1942 the cemetery was desecrated. After 1945, a stele was erected from the rubble of the tombstone in the cemetery in memory of the victims of the Nazi era .

There are still around 400 tombstones, the oldest dating from 1662.

New cemetery

The so-called New Cemetery is located at Haunstetter Straße 64. Funerals have been held here since 1868 until today. Approx. 1,500 tombstones have been preserved. In 1924, 1930, 1935 and 1991 the cemetery was desecrated. A memorial stone commemorates the Jews killed during the Nazi era .

West Cemetery

This cemetery is part of the municipal west cemetery. On it are the graves of concentration camp victims and prisoners who perished in Augsburg. The names of the dead are recorded on a plaque in the cemetery. There are no tombstones in this part.

See also

literature

  • Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Bavarian State Center for Political Education (Ed.), Munich 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X
  • Yehuda Shenef: The Augsburg Jewish Cemetery: On the history and the remains of the medieval Jewish cemetery in the imperial city of Augsburg . Kokavim-Verlag, 2013, 176 pp., ISBN 978-3944092010
  • Yehuda Shenef: The house of three stars - The story of the Jewish cemetery of Pfersee, Kriegshaber and Steppach near Augsburg, in Austria, Bavaria and Germany . Kokavim-Verlag 2013, 185 pages, ISBN 978-3944092027

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Warlords. In: Central archive for research into the history of the Jews in Germany : overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Bavaria. Editor: Felicitas Grützmann.