Jewish cemetery (Brno)
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 29.2 " N , 16 ° 38 ′ 36.6" E
The Jewish cemetery in the Moravian capital Brno ( Brno in Czech) was laid out in 1852 and later expanded several times. The Jewish cemetery at 27 Nezamyslova Street in the Židenice district has been a protected cultural monument since 1988 .
history
The approximately three hectare Jewish cemetery is the largest in South Moravia with around 9,000 tombs . Some of the much older tombstones come from the disbanded Jewish cemeteries in the region.
In 1950 a memorial for the Holocaust victims was erected.
Mourning hall
Buried personalities
- Baruch Placzek , rabbi
- Richard Feder , rabbi
- Julius von Gomperz , industrialist and politician
- Hieronymus Lorm , writer
- Hugo Haas , actor
See also
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 ).
Web links
Commons : Jewish Cemetery (Brno) - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- The Jewish Cemetery - Website of the Brno Jewish Community (Czech)
- History of the Jewish community in Brno