Jewish cemetery (Kaiserslautern)
The Jewish cemetery in Kaiserslautern is a well-preserved Jewish cemetery in Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is a protected cultural monument .
description
The Jewish cemetery is located in the Christian cemetery , the main cemetery of the city of Kaiserslautern since 1873. This is between Mannheimer Straße (= B 37 ) and Donnersbergstraße. In the Jewish cemetery there are approx. 550 gravestones in 39 rows on an area of 3300 m² . Due to the influx of Jewish citizens from the countries of Eastern Europe, there is also a further need for space in the cemetery.
history
In 1858 the first burial took place in the newly established Jewish cemetery, located "Am Kahlenberg". 447 gravestones from the years 1858 to 1945 have been preserved; approx. 100 were set from 1945 to today (2009) for Jewish deceased from the former Soviet Union .
In 1928, 1931 and 1999 the cemetery was desecrated: gravestones were demolished or overturned.
See also
literature
- 150 years of the Kaiserslautern Jewish cemetery. Department of Culture of the City of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2008, ISBN 978-3-936036-23-7 (with numerous photos and maps).
- Heinz Friedel : The modern Jewish community of Kaiserslautern. In: Rainer Joha Bender (Ed.): Palatinate Jews and their cultural institutions (= Südwestdeutsche Schriften. 5). Institute for cultural studies and regional research at the University of Mannheim, Mannheim 1988, ISBN 3-87804-193-4 , pp. 61–90 (therein pp. 84–85: History of the Jewish cemetery in Kaiserslautern).
Web links
- Kaiserslautern. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany; here: Rhineland-Palatinate; Version: November 2006
- Kaiserslautern in the time of National Socialism. Searching for traces at the Kaiserslautern forest cemetery - The Jewish cemetery
- Jewish Cemetery Kaiserslautern (PDF file; 317 kB) ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 43.7 " N , 7 ° 47 ′ 44.7" E
