Jewish cemetery (Gau-Algesheim)

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Gau-Algesheim

Tombstone

The Jewish cemetery in Gau-Algesheim , a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate , was probably laid out at the beginning of the 19th century. The 10.47 ares large Jewish cemetery is located northeast of the city in the Flur Am Judensand .

The cemetery was used as a burial place for the Jewish communities of Gau-Algesheim and Ockenheim . The last burial took place in 1937 (Rosa Nathan nee Marx). Over 30 tombstones from the first half of the 19th to the early 20th century are still preserved.

time of the nationalsocialism

The cemetery was desecrated during the November pogroms in 1938 . Numerous gravestones were overturned by a group of SA men.

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 : Jüdischer Friedhof (Gau-Algesheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 51.5 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 34 ″  E