Jewish cemetery (Baden-Baden)

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Entrance to the cemetery
View of the cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Baden-Baden is a Jewish cemetery in Baden-Baden , a city in the west of Baden-Württemberg . The cemetery is located on Eckbergstrasse and is part of the Lichtental municipal cemetery.

history

The dead of the Jewish community in Baden-Baden and the deceased Jewish spa guests were first buried in the Jewish cemetery in Kuppenheim .

From 1918 to 1921 a Jewish cemetery was laid out in the Lichtental district , which adjoins the city cemetery. The 23.81 ares large cemetery is still in use today.

In the cemetery there is a cemetery hall ( Tahara House ) and over 150 tombstones ( Mazewot ). In 1976 a memorial stone was inaugurated to commemorate the destroyed synagogue .

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 version ).

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Baden-Baden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 5.6 "  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 46.3"  E