Jewish cemetery (Bad Buchau)
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The Bad Buchau Jewish Cemetery in Bad Buchau , a health resort in the Biberach district in Upper Swabia , is a protected cultural monument .
history
Before the Jewish cemetery was laid out in Buchau in 1659, the Buchau Jewish community buried its dead in the Jewish cemetery in Kappel .
The Jewish community of Buchau, which had existed since the Middle Ages , had a cemetery on the old Saulgauer Strasse. In 1659, together with the Jews from Aulendorf and Mittelbiberach, a new cemetery was created on the Buchauer Insel corridor , which has an area of 66.98 acres . In the 18th century, due to the lack of space in the southeastern part, the graves were laid three times on top of each other, which is visible in the clearly elevated terrain. The Jewish residents of Leutkirch , Ravensburg , Riedlingen , Wangen im Allgäu and other places were also buried here. Today there are still 825 tombstones ( Mazewot ) and the last burial so far took place in 2003. The Tahara house, which has been renovated in the meantime, is also still there. 99 people with the name Einstein, who were related to the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein , are buried here. Among others, the last Jew of Buchau, Siegbert Einstein , who survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and was temporarily second mayor of the city of Buchau after the Second World War. Siegbert's grandfather Samuel R. Einstein was the brother of Abraham R. Einstein, Albert Einstein's grandfather.
In 1990 a memorial with the names of the murdered Jewish citizens from Buchau was erected in the cemetery . The local history researcher Charlotte Mayenberger recorded all the data on the gravestones, cataloged them and used them as part of her research on local history and the fate of Jewish citizens in Buchau. An important result of their genealogical research is the "Buchau family tree", in which the biographical data of over 8,000 Jewish citizens of Buchau are summarized.
literature
- Charlotte Mayenberger : Jews in Buchau . (District of Biberach - History and Culture, Volume 8), Federsee-Verlag, Bad Buchau 2008.
- Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2007, pp. 14-16, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).
Web links
- Jewish cemetery in Bad Buchau near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
- Information on the Jewish cemetery Bad Buchau in the list of Jewish cemeteries in Baden-Württemberg of the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- Video on the Jewish cemetery in Buchau by PE Dangelmaier
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung : Mayenberg treasures from September 1, 2010, accessed on September 3, 2010, are not only shown to the rabbi
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 9 ° 36 ′ 57.9 ″ E