Jewish cemetery (Besançon)
The Jewish cemetery in Besançon , a French town in the Doubs department , was laid out at the end of the 18th century. It is the only Jewish cemetery in the department.
history
The Besançon Jewish cemetery is located on Anne Frank Street, in the northwest of the city between the districts of Bregille and Palente. The oldest part of the cemetery was laid out in 1796 by Nathan Lippmann and Pierre Picard, two members of the Besançon Jewish community . In 1839 the cemetery was expanded.
The oldest tombstones in the cemetery date from 1849, while many new graves are still being built today. At the entrance to the cemetery, a war memorial commemorates the members of the Besançon Jewish community who were killed during the First World War .
Today the Besançon Jewish cemetery houses between 500 and 1000 graves on an area of around 700 m².
Overview of the cemetery
mausoleum
Pyramid-shaped tomb
Tomb of the Hauser family
Tomb of the Haas family
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Jewish cemetery of Besançon in Migrations.Besancon.fr, 3rd paragraph. ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. (Around February 26, 2010).
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '21.1 " N , 6 ° 2' 54.6" E