Jewish cemetery (Buttenhausen)
The Jewish cemetery Buttenhausen in Buttenhausen , a district of the municipality of Münsingen in the district of Reutlingen ( Baden-Württemberg ), is a protected cultural monument and is located on the northern slope of Mühlberg forest.
history
The Jewish community of Buttenhausen laid the cemetery above the Jewish residential area in 1789. The Reich Baron Phillip Friedrich von Liebenstein had granted the Jewish community this right in the so-called Jewish Protection Letter of July 7, 1787. The area of the cemetery is 39.87 acres . The oldest legible tombstone is from 1802 and the last burial took place in 1943. Today there are 399 tombstones ( mazewot ) from the entire period of use. The cemetery was prepared by Walter Ott and his sons from the mid-1970s , the tombstones cleaned and erected again and the signs repainted.
In the cemetery there is a memorial stone for the Jewish community and a plaque explaining their history. Between 1940 and 1945 older Jews from all over the German Reich were forcibly committed to the so-called Jewish old people's home , i.e. the now empty quarters of the Buttenhausen Jews. They were taken from Buttenhausen to the extermination camps. An installation made of railway tracks by Thomas Felder is reminiscent of them .
graveyard
The cemetery erected on the slope of the Mühlhalde clearly shows the development of the various gravestone styles from the late 18th to the 20th century. While the older gravestones are kept simple and inscribed in Hebrew, the younger gravestones have beautifully executed shapes that often indicate the origin of the buried. 20th century gravestones were often made of artificial stone. Since the Jews could no longer acquire stones during the Nazi era , wooden steles were set up at their graves. The steles are exemplarily exhibited in the Bernheimer Realschule. They were replaced by simple grave pillow stones in the 1960s.
Simple tombstone from the older part of the cemetery
Decorated tombstone with only Hebrew script
Gravestone of a member of the Kohanim with the characteristic blessing hands
Ornate tombstone
Decorated gravestone with an eagle symbolizing the family name
Gravestone of a member of the Levites with the typical jug
Gravestone of a mohel with clipping knives
Newer tombstones from 1928 and 1929
Gravestone of the probably last burial, 1943
See also
literature
- Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4)
- City of Münsingen (ed.): Jews and their homeland Buttenhausen , Münsingen 1988.
Web links
- Museum Jews in Buttenhausen
- Buttenhausen Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Information on the Jewish cemetery Buttenhausen in the list of Jewish cemeteries in Baden-Württemberg of the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- History of the Jewish community of Buttenhausen (subpage from jewische-gemeinden.de)
Individual evidence
- ^ Exhibition Jews in Buttenhausen ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2013 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.
- ↑ Information board on the installation in the Buttenhausen Jewish cemetery
- ^ Alemannia Judaica
- ↑ a b Information board at the entrance to the Buttenhausen Jewish cemetery
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '31.4 " N , 9 ° 28' 33.1" E