Jewish cemetery (Buttenwiesen)

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Jewish cemetery in Buttenwiesen
Jewish cemetery in Buttenwiesen

The Jewish cemetery in Buttenwiesen , a community in the Swabian district of Dillingen an der Donau , is located in the middle of the village next to the communal cemetery.

history

The Jewish community of Buttenwiesen built its own cemetery in 1632 or 1633. Before that, she buried her dead in the Burgau cemetery, which no longer exists . Gravestones ( mazewot ) from the 17th and 18th centuries are no longer available, as many grave monuments were made of wood. On the three grave fields in the southern part of the cemetery there are tombstones from the first half of the 19th century and in the eastern part stones from the second half of the 19th century. In the north-western part are the graves from the 20th century.

Tahara house

The Tahara house was demolished after 1945 and a garage was built in its place (Marktplatz 8), the external dimensions of which roughly correspond to the former Tahara house.

time of the nationalsocialism

The cemetery was damaged during the November pogroms in 1938 and many tombstones were sold to a master stonemason afterwards .

Current condition

After 1945 the cemetery was restored and the sold tombstones, if they still existed, were brought back.

In 1919/20 the Jewish community of Buttenwiesen arranged for the eastern part of the cemetery to be filled. In 1950, the municipality of Buttenwiesen built a municipal cemetery in this previously unused part.

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 edition ).
  • Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Published by the Bavarian State Center for Political Education in Munich. Bayerische Verlags-Anstalt, Bamberg 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X , pp. 236-237.
  • More than stones ... Synagogue memorial ribbon Bavaria. Volume I . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt and Angela Hager with the assistance of Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans Christof Haas and Frank Purrmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-411-3 , pp. 423-430.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Buttenwiesen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '20 "  N , 10 ° 43' 17.1"  E