Jewish cemetery (Chemnitz)
The Jewish cemetery in Chemnitz is a cemetery in the independent city of Chemnitz in Saxony .
The approximately 3000 m² (according to other information about 13,000) m² large Jewish cemetery is located west of the city center halfway up the Kaßberg next to the Christian Matthäus cemetery (street "Hoher Weg"). There are around 1,250 tombstones . Several stones have fallen over, some are damaged. The stone with the oldest dating comes from 1878.
The cemetery is divided into seven sections. There is a section only for Orthodox Jews and separate fields for children and for rabbis . There are some noteworthy monumental graves for Jews who worked as industrialists in Chemnitz. The cemetery is still used today for funerals.
See also
- Mortuary in the Jewish cemetery
Web links
- Jewish cemetery Chemnitz near Alemannia Judaica (without photos)
- Chemnitz cemetery on juden-in-mittelachsen.de
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 42 ″ N , 12 ° 53 ′ 22 ″ E