Jewish cemetery (Berlichingen)

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Gravestones in the Berlichingen Jewish cemetery
Entrance area with memorial plaque (photo from 2010, the fence has since been renewed)

The Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Berlichingen , a district of the community Schöntal in Hohenlohekreis in northern Baden-Württemberg .

The cemetery of the Jewish community of Berlichingen was first mentioned in writing in 1586. It also served as a burial place for the surrounding Jewish communities. The following communities are named in 1706: Adelsheim , Braunsbach , Hohebach , Hollenbach , Merchingen , Nagelsberg and Sennfeld , and in the 19th and 20th centuries also Bieringen , Ernsbach and Künzelsau . The cemetery is about two kilometers southeast in the Jewish burial hall . The cemetery has an area of ​​14,793  m 2 , today there are 1,197 tombstones . The oldest tombstone is from 1659, the last burial took place in 1936. In 1985 a memorial plaque was put up to inform about the fate of the Jewish community. Another board gives information about where information about buried persons can be obtained.

  • Tombstones

  • Gravestone with shofar

  • Gravestone with hands of the Kohanim

  • sinking tombstone

literature

  • Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4)
  • Naftali Bar-Giora Bamberger: Memor Book. The Jewish cemeteries in the Hohenlohe district . 2 volumes, Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2002, ISBN 3-934350-59-3 . (not evaluated)

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Berlichingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Hohenlohe district. Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archive in conjunction with the Hohenlohe district. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7995-1367-1 , Volume 2, p. 292 and note 3.

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 42 ″  E