Jewish cemetery (Chemnitz)

Graves in the cemetery

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

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Chemnitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jewish cemetery Chemnitz near Alemannia Judaica (without photos)
• Chemnitz cemetery on juden-in-mittelachsen.de

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 42 ″  N , 12 ° 53 ′ 22 ″  E