Jewish cemetery (Brieg)
The Jewish cemetery in Brieg ( Brzeg in Polish ), a district town of the Powiat Brzeski in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland , was built around 1800. The Jewish cemetery of the former Jewish community has been a protected architectural monument since 1989 .
history
Around 1800 the Jewish community in Brzeg was able to acquire land on Schüsselndorfer Strasse and set up a cemetery here. Until then, the deceased were buried either in the Jewish cemetery in Breslau or in the Jewish cemetery in Zülz.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
Web links
Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Brieg) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 45.6 ″ N , 17 ° 27 ′ 28.8 ″ E