Jewish cemetery (Běleč)
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '27.9 " N , 14 ° 51' 31.8" E
The Jewish cemetery in Běleč (German Bieltsch), a municipality in the Okres Tábor district in the Czech Republic , was established in the first half of the 18th century.
history
The exact date of the construction of the cemetery is not known, but the oldest surviving tombstones date from the first half of the 18th century. In the 19th century the cemetery was expanded. Burials took place until the outbreak of World War II , after which the cemetery was no longer maintained; the new part of the cemetery was vandalized after the war, the tombstones were removed in 1991. After 1994 the old part of the cemetery was restored.
background
There was no Jewish community in Běleč; the cemetery, which is located on the cadastre of the municipality of Běleč, two kilometers to the north-east between the Elbančice and the village of Vilice , was established by the Jewish municipality in Mladá Vožice . It occupies an area of 2805 m² and today has 180 preserved tombstones (according to other information, 2944 m² and 150 tombstones). It is striking that most of the inscriptions on the tombstones face west. Today the cemetery is owned by the Prague Jewish Community . The cemetery is listed as a cultural monument.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jiří Fiedler, Židovské památky v Čechách a na Moravě , Sefer, 1992; the slightly modified online edition Židovské komunity v Čechách a na Moravě [Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia] is based on this, on the server www2.holocaust.cz/… ( memento of the original from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Historie židovských obcí v Čechách a na Moravě [History of Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia], Chapter Běleč , online at: zidovskehrbitovy.cz/…
- ↑ Mladá Vožice-synagoga (Jung Woschitz Synagogue) - Židé a synagoga v Mladé Vožici , online at: www.zanikleobce.cz/…
- ↑ židovský hřbitov ÚSKP 26910 / 3-4728 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
