Jewish cemetery (Simmern)
The Jewish cemetery Simmern is an old burial place in Simmern , the district town of the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Jewish cemetery is about 200 m southeast of the communal cemetery. The cemetery has been a protected cultural monument since 1992 .
The Jewish community of Simmern laid out the cemetery in the 18th century. It is first mentioned in 1760. Until around 1840, the dead of the Jewish community in Rheinböllen were also buried in the cemetery. The cemetery was desecrated in 1862, 1871 and 1907. In November 1990 32 tombstones ( mazewot ) were overturned.
The cemetery has an area of 18.00 acres , it was expanded in 1838 and the last burial took place in 1937.
literature
- Karl Faller: Jews in Simmern / Hunsrück. Attempt at the historical representation. 600 years of ties between the Jews and the town of Simmern / Hunsrück and the Jewish community of Simmern. Self-published, Simmern 1988. [not evaluated]
- Doris Wesner: The Jewish community in Simmern / Hunsrück. Family history (s) and fates from the past three centuries (= series of publications by the Hunsrück History Association. No. 36). Self-published by the author, Simmern 2001, ISBN 3-9807919-3-9 . [not evaluated]
- Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (= memorial book of synagogues in Germany. Vol. 2). Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , pp. 234-235.
Web links
- Simmern Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Jewish cemetery Simmern at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 7 ° 30 ′ 54.6 ″ E