Jewish cemetery (Gonnesweiler)
The Gonnesweiler Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Gonnesweiler district of the Nohfelden community in the St. Wendel district ( Saarland ). It is a protected architectural monument .
The cemetery is an extension of the Seestrasse, which begins in the center of the village, on a hill in the immediate vicinity of the Bostalsee. 21 tombstones have been preserved on an area of 844 m² .
history
Between 1800 and 1935 there were around 60 to 70 burials in the cemetery .
The funeral of Siegfried Mendel during the Nazi era was brutally disrupted by stones being thrown. Numerous gravestones disappeared during the Nazi era.
On May 12, 1981, a memorial stone was dedicated in the cemetery . It bears the inscription: “The former Jewish fellow citizens of Gonnesweiler, their dead resting here as an honorable memory. Nohfelden municipality. Synagogue community Saar. 1981. "
Web links
- Gonnesweiler. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Saarland (editor: Felicitas Grützmann)
- Gonnesweiler Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Jewish cemeteries in Saarland
- The Jewish cemetery in Gonnesweiler
- Photos of tombstones ( memento from March 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Digital Edition - Gonnesweiler Jewish Cemetery (1877–1902 [22 entries]) at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland: List of monuments in the district of St. Wendel (PDF file; 16.81 MB)
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '56.4 " N , 7 ° 4' 56" E