Jewish cemetery (Freudental)
The Jewish cemetery Freudental is a Jewish cemetery in Freudental , a municipality in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument . It is located at the foot of the Seeberg, in the Bönnigheim district .
history
The Jewish community in Freudental maintained a Jewish cemetery as early as 1723, but it was leveled in 1811 in order to create a pheasantry for the King of Württemberg . Four tombstone fragments are now in the former Affaltrach synagogue .
After the old Jewish cemetery was closed, the Jewish community built a new cemetery on the northwest slope of the Steinbach valley. It has an area of 24.92 acres and the small cemetery hall ( Tahara house ) has been preserved. The dead of the Jewish community in Zaberfeld , which had belonged to the Freudentaler Jewish community since 1832, were also buried in Freudental.
Today there are still 435 tombstones ( mazewot ) in the cemetery ; the last burial took place in 1970.
In 2007 there were several desecrations in which tombstones were smeared, knocked over and also broken.
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 version ).
- Joachim Hahn , 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).
- Ludwig Bez, Haim Goren, Situtunga Michal Antmann, Ulrich Gräf, Dan Rubinstein: The Jewish cemetery in Freudental . Published by the Pedagogical-Cultural Center Former Synagogue Freudental eV Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1996, ISBN 3-17-014161-9 ,
Web links
- Freudental Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- Freudental Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 51 ″ N , 9 ° 3 ′ 5 ″ E