Jewish cemetery (Laupheim)
The Jewish cemetery Laupheim is a Jewish cemetery in Laupheim , a town in the Biberach district in Baden-Württemberg . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument and is located on the Judenberg .
history
The Jewish community of Laupheim laid out the cemetery after 1730 and expanded it several times. Today it has an area of 46.27 acres and survived the National Socialist era almost unscathed. The first burial took place in 1732 and after 1945 the cemetery was occupied several times (1983 funeral of Siegfried Einstein ). Today there are still 916 tombstones ( mazewot ). The first morgue ( Tahara House ) was built in 1822 and replaced by a new building in 1907.
A plaque of bronze with the names of the war dead of the First World War remained at the war memorial , although all other metal parts have been removed in the cemetery 1,942th
In 1984 a memorial plaque was placed at the entrance to the Jewish cemetery listing the names of 100 Jewish citizens from Laupheim who were murdered during the Nazi persecution.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ).
- Joachim Hahn and 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).
- Nathanja Hüttenmeister : The Jewish cemetery in Laupheim. A documentation . Traffic and Beautification Association, Laupheim 1998, ISBN 3-00-003527-3 . [not evaluated]
Web links
- Jewish cemetery in Laupheim at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- Jewish cemetery in Laupheim near Alemannia Judaica
- Text on the cemetery and database on the inscriptions on the gravestones at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '56 " N , 9 ° 53' 5" E