Jewish cemetery (Bretzenheim)

Jewish cemetery in Bretzenheim

The Jewish cemetery in Bretzenheim , a local community in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate , was laid out around 1863. The Jewish cemetery is located south of the village in the corridor In der Johanneshohl .

history

The oldest surviving tombstone is dated November 25, 1863, the youngest is dated September 24, 1932. Ten single and three double graves are still preserved in the cemetery.

During the Nazi era , tombs were overturned in 1941/42. Some stones were stolen and used as flooring on site.

At the beginning of 1945, 38 concentration camp prisoners were buried in the cemetery, who had been forced to do forced labor in the Bad Kreuznach area.

literature

• Jewish graves in the Bad Kreuznach district, history and design part 1 . A documentation of the Bad Kreuznach district administration and the Rhineland-Palatinate Pedagogical Center. Bad Kreuznach 1995 Bad Kreuznach 1995, pp. 129-146.
• 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 : Bretzenheim Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bretzenheim Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• Bretzenheim Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '57.2 "  N , 7 ° 53' 9.4"  E