Jewish cemetery (Gotha)
The Jewish cemetery is a cemetery of the city of Gotha in the district of Gotha in Thuringia .
history
Originally, the Jewish merchant families who moved to Gotha in the middle of the 18th century were able to create a burial place ("old cemetery") in front of Siebleber Tor, east of today's Friedrichstrasse below the orangery . In 1829, Duke Ernst I gave them permission to build a new burial site on today's Erfurter Landstrasse ( next to the Siechhofe on the way to Kindleben ), which no longer exists today.
Around 1870, the Jewish community acquired the site of today's cemetery on the corner of Eisenacher Strasse and In der Klinge. The new Jewish cemetery formed the western extension of Cemetery IV, which was laid out in 1855 along Eisenacher Strasse .
By 1942, around 172 graves were laid out in two grave fields in the 2,805 square meter cemetery. The oldest gravestone dates from 1878, the youngest from 1942. The last person to be buried here was the Jewish entrepreneur Max Ledermann, who committed suicide on May 11, 1942 in order to avoid deportation to the concentration camp.
In 1982 the old cemetery hall was demolished and a memorial stone has been in its place since 1988.
Others
On the weekend of January 31 / February 1, 2004, strangers knocked over 14 tombstones and damaged two.
On the night of November 16-17, 2008, the cemetery was desecrated again. Two men put a pig's head and a cloth poster with anti-Jewish slogans on the entrance gate, which was decorated with a Star of David. They also threw glasses of pig blood on the cemetery grounds. In 2010 the perpetrators were sentenced to six months' imprisonment, suspended to two years probation, and 60 and 90 daily rates of 10 and 25 euros respectively.
In contrast to the other Gotha cemeteries, the Jewish cemetery is closed and can only be visited after registering with the city administration (Tel .: 03621 / 222-470).
literature
- Traces of Jewish life in Gotha. Association of Friends and Supporters of the Herzog-Ernst-School, Gotha 2015, ISBN 978-3-939182-71-9 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thüringer Allgemeine , November 17, 2008.
- ↑ Thüringer Allgemeine , June 17, 2010.
Web links
- Cemeteries on the website of the city of Gotha
- The Jewish cemeteries in Gotha near Alemannia Judaica
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 6.1 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 12.8 ″ E