Jewish cemetery (Binswangen)

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Jewish cemetery in Binswangen, reference stone
Jewish cemetery in Binswangen, general view

The Binswangen Jewish cemetery in Binswangen , a municipality in the Swabian district of Dillingen on the Danube , is located on State Road 2033 between Binswangen and Wertingen on a small hill.

history

The Jewish community of Binswangen built their own cemetery in 1663. Before that, she buried her dead in the no longer existing Jewish cemetery in Burgau . For each burial, a death benefit had to be paid to the von Pappenheim gentlemen , on whose grounds the cemetery was located. Every year the Jews had to pay another guilder for the use of the cemetery . The cemetery was expanded in 1694, 1730 and 1761. In 1761 an enclosure wall was built because graves had been destroyed.

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1924, members of an NSDAP youth group knocked over or smashed 30 gravestones , other young people smeared them with Nazi symbols . The instigator was sentenced to 14 weeks in prison.

In 1938 strangers overturned 25 tombstones and smashed most of the others.

In 1940 members of the Hitler Youth devastated the rest of the tombstones and towards the end of the Second World War the cemetery wall was torn down and used as building material.

Current condition

After 1945 a small part of the tombstones was put up again and the cemetery wall was rebuilt in 1963. In 1975 strangers knocked over fifteen of the few remaining tombstones.

The current round arrangement is due to the reorganization after the desecration of the cemetery. Only a few tombstones are still preserved.

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 ).
  • Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Published by the Bavarian State Center for Political Education in Munich. Bayerische Verlags-Anstalt, Bamberg 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X , pp. 234-235.
  • More than stones ... Synagogue memorial band Bavaria. Volume I . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt and Angela Hager with the assistance of Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans Christof Haas and Frank Purrmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-411-3 , pp. 414-422.

Web links

Commons : Binswangen Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 41.6 ″  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 24.2 ″  E