Jewish cemetery (Eisenach)
The Jewish cemetery in Eisenach , a city in western Thuringia , was established in 1867 as a Jewish cemetery within the city's main cemetery .
history
Until the 1860s, the deceased members of the Eisenach Jewish community were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Herleshausen . In 1867, with the construction of the main cemetery, a Jewish part of the cemetery (old cemetery) was created. The first burial was on March 31, 1868 (Löb Stiebel).
During the First World War , a new Jewish part of the cemetery was laid out on the site of the main cemetery. It comprises ten rows of graves with over eighty gravestones . The cemetery was occupied until 1940 and again after 1945.
Since the surviving tombstones , often made of sandstone, are gradually weathering and the inscriptions are becoming increasingly illegible, a group of interested citizens of Eisenach has started a comprehensive documentation of the approximately 250 tombstones on both grave fields. In addition to photographing the grave monuments, this also includes translating the Hebrew inscriptions with the names and often detailed biographical information about the deceased. The work, supported by funds from the city of Eisenach's cultural fund, is to be published as a supplement to the journal for Thuringian history and also made available to the Jerusalem Yad Vashem memorial for its research work.
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 ).
Web links
- Jewish cemetery Eisenach near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Schellbach: inscriptions on Jewish gravestones translated in Eisenach . In: Thuringian General . February 11, 2020 ( online ).
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 10 ° 18 ′ 59.2 ″ E