Jewish cemetery (Brandýs nad Labem)
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 20.6 ″ N , 14 ° 39 ′ 14.6 ″ E
The Jewish cemetery in Brandýs nad Labem (German Brandeis ad Elbe ), a district of Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav in Okres Praha-východ in the Czech Republic , was laid out in the middle of the 16th century. The Jewish cemetery is about 500 meters from the village. Today the cemetery is one of the oldest on the Czech territory. The oldest existing tombstone ( Mazewa ) dates from 1572.
The cemetery has been a protected cultural monument since 1958 .
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 ).
- Rabbi Moritz Mandl: History of the Jews in Brandeis ad E. and Elbekosteletz . In: Hugo Gold , The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present . Jüdischer Buch- und Kunstverlag, Brno / Prague 1934, pp. 56–58 ( online ) at the Upper Austria Regional Library
Web links
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