Jewish cemetery (Nördlingen)

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Nördlingen

Entrance portal to the Jewish Friedhot Nördlingen

View from the entrance over the Jewish cemetery in Nördlingen

Partial view of the Jewish cemetery in Nördlingen

Partial view of the Jewish cemetery in Nördlingen

The Jewish cemetery in Nördlingen , a town in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries , is a protected cultural monument and is located on Nähermemminger Weg.

history

In the Middle Ages there were already three Jewish cemeteries , of which there are no more visible traces. After the expulsion in 1506/07, Jews could not settle in Nördlingen again until the 19th century .

In 1877, the Jewish community in Nördlingen again established a cemetery in the vicinity of the municipal cemetery on Nähermemminger Weg and Stegmühlweg. A Tahara house was also built and inaugurated on September 7, 1877. In 1978 the building was demolished because it was in disrepair .

In the 18.68 ares large cemetery there are still about 220 tombstones ( mazewot ). The last burial took place in 1986.

In the cemetery there is a war memorial for the Jewish soldiers who fell in World War I from Nördlingen.

time of the nationalsocialism

The cemetery was partially cleared during the Nazi era . Many tombstones and parts of the cemetery wall were removed and used as building material. In 1947 200 tombstones were erected again.

Commemoration

In the cemetery there is a memorial stone with the inscription: “In honor of the dead and in eternal memory of the Jewish citizens from Nördlingen and the surrounding area, who perished cruelly in the years of persecution from 1933 to 1945. As a warning to us living, to the coming generations as an urgent teaching. Erected in 1979 by the regional association of Jewish religious communities in Bavaria ”.

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 ).
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Published by the Bavarian State Center for Political Education in Munich. Bayerische Verlags-Anstalt, Bamberg 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X , pp. 259-260.
• More than stones ... Synagogue memorial band Bavaria. Volume I . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt and Angela Hager with the assistance of Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans Christof Haas and Frank Purrmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-411-3 , pp. 511-521.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• To the Jewish cemetery in Nördlingen near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
• [1] Nördlingen (New Cemetery). In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Bavaria. Editor: Felicitas Grützmann, Central Archive for Research into the History of Jews in Germany , 2010
• Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria: Nördlingen
• About the Jewish fallen soldiers of the First World War from Nördlingen , House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical cultural landscape in the Nördlinger Ries - survey form for cultural landscape elements (PDF; 5.3 MB), section: Jewish cemetery in Nördlingen.

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 39 ″  E