Jewish cemetery (Český Krumlov)
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 56.4 " N , 14 ° 19 ′ 35.1" E
The Jewish cemetery in Český Krumlov , in German Krumau (also Bohemian Krumau , Krumau an der Moldau or Krummau ), a town in Jihočeský kraj in the Czech Republic , was established in 1891.
history
The industrialist Ignaz Spiro had arranged for a Jewish cemetery with a large mourning hall to be laid out in the early 1890s . Previously, the deceased of the Jewish community of Krumlov had been buried in the Jewish cemetery in Rosenberg ( Rožmberk nad Vltavou ).
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).
- Leopold Hirsch: History of the Jews in Boehm. Krumlov . In: Hugo Gold , The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present . Jüdischer Buch- und Kunstverlag, Brno / Prague 1934, pp. 49–50 (with photos on page 50, including by Rabbi Hirsch) ( online ) at the Upper Austria Regional Library
Web links
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