Jewish cemetery (St. Ingbert)

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View of the cemetery
Entrance to the cemetery

The St. Ingbert Jewish Cemetery is a former cemetery of the Jewish community in St. Ingbert . The cemetery is a listed building as a single monument.

history

The dead of the Jewish community were buried in Blieskastel until 1888 . This year, after negotiations with the city, a separate Jewish cemetery was set up in St. Ingbert. In 1886 the city council decided to purchase land for 300 marks and make it available to the city's Jewish community. In December 1888, Wolfgang Kahn, the director of the Israelite religious community and St. Ingbert city council, was the first to be buried in St. Ingbert. A total of 38 people had been buried by December 1935.

Like so many Jewish cemeteries, the St. Ingbert cemetery was desecrated during the Nazi era and the gravestones were overturned. The city building authority cleared the tombstones and stored them in a neighboring quarry. The cemetery was leveled around 1942 and used for agriculture. After the war ended , the city decided to repair it in August 1947. By 1951, the cemetery was restored and the tombstones put up again.

literature

  • Christoph Nimsgern, Eva Zutter: Jews in St. Ingbert. (A documentation). 2nd edition, revised and expanded. Wassermann, St. Ingbert 1990, ISBN 3-928030-21-3 .
  • Friends of the Rescue of Jewish Cultural Assets in Saarland eV, State Conservatory Office of the Saarland (Ed.): The cord is loose - the ribbon is broken. Jewish cemeteries in Saarland. Circle of Friends for the Rescue of Jewish Cultural Property in Saarland eVua, Saarbrücken 2004, p. 58 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Ingbert sub- monument list ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saar, p. 13 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ^ The Jewish cemetery St. Ingbert , database of Jewish tombstones, Steinheim Institute

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 1 ″  E