Jewish cemetery (Annweiler am Trifels)
| Jewish Cemetery | ||
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 The cemetery in 2003 |
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| place | Annweiler am Trifels | |
| Construction year | 16th Century | |
| Floor space | 2,830 m² | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 12 '35.5 " N , 7 ° 58' 52.1" E | |
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The Jewish cemetery in the town of Annweiler am Trifels in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the oldest surviving Jewish cemeteries in the Palatinate area . It is a protected cultural monument .
description
The cemetery , which today has an area of 2,830 m², is located above today's Industriestrasse, below Madenburgstrasse. The information about the number of tombstones is contradicting one another: "According to a more recent documentation, there are 211 in the older part and 105 in the newer part." - a total of 316; “211 tombstones in the old, 316 in the new part” - a total of 527.
history
The cemetery was already occupied in the 16th century. As an association cemetery , it was the burial place for Jews in a wide area: Albersweiler , Waldhambach , Eschbach , Bergzabern , Pleisweiler , Gleishorbach , Arzheim , Billigheim , Rohrbach , Göcklingen , Klingenmünster and Ingenheim . The Jewish communities and Jewish families in these places paid taxes to Annweiler between 1606 and 1684 for the maintenance and use of the cemetery. The oldest Jewish tombstone dates back to 1607 and was dedicated to a woman.
After a new cemetery was laid out in Ingenheim around 1650 , some of these places buried the dead there. The cemetery in Annweiler was then mainly occupied by the community in Albersweiler.
The cemetery has been expanded several times over the centuries. The newer part was laid out in 1875. The last funeral took place in 1937. In 2008 the area with the grave monuments and its enclosure was placed under monument protection by the district administration Südliche Weinstrasse - Lower Monument Protection Authority "because of its age and the abundance of remarkable epitaphs " that make it "one of the most important in the region".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alemannia Judaica: Annweiler am Trifels (VG Annweiler, district Südliche Weinstrasse) Jewish cemetery (of the Jewish community of Albersweiler)
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Southern Wine Route district. Mainz 2020, p. 6 (PDF; 10 MB).
- ↑ a b Trifels Kurier: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Official Gazette of the district of Südliche Weinstrasse No. 5 from February 12, 2008. Public announcement of the statutory ordinance on the protection of the “Jewish Cemetery” monument zone in Annweiler ) from February 21, 2008, P. 2, 5. Accessed May 3, 2017
- ^ The cemetery in Annweiler . ViLE network e. V. Ulm. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
