Jewish cemetery (Binau)
The Jewish cemetery Binau is a Jewish cemetery in Binau in the Neckar-Odenwald district in northern Baden-Württemberg . It is a protected cultural monument .
The Jewish cemetery was created in 1851 on Reichenbucher Straße (100 meters west of the Christian cemetery) (area 7.74 acres ) and was occupied until 1938. In 1986 70 tombstones ( Mazewot ) were still preserved.
1944 cemetery of the Nazis was to the cemetery the concentration camp Neckarelz and the outer bearing Neckargerach converted. Over 200 dead from the armaments factory in Obrigheim , which had been relocated underground to the mine , were buried there from October 1944 to March 1945. After 1945, many of the concentration camp victims were reburied in their homeland. Today a memorial stone in the Jewish cemetery commemorates the prisoners and forced laborers from several European countries (especially France and Poland) who perished in Mosbach and Obrigheim .
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 ).
- Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 , pp. 46-48 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).
Web links
- Binau Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Binau Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 3 ″ N , 9 ° 3 ′ 52 ″ E