Jewish cemetery (Guntersblum)
The Guntersblum Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Guntersblum , a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The cemetery is located south of Eimsheimer Straße and west of Guntersblumer Kellerweg at the end of the village.
history
The oldest surviving tombstone in the Jewish cemetery in Guntersblum is from 1849. It was erected for Joseph Salm, the head of the Guntersblum Jewish community, and his wife Jeanette.
The cemetery, which was expanded in 1893, has an area of 20.56 ares and today there are still about 80 tombstones ( mazewot ).
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ).
- Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: Synagogues Rhineland-Palatinate - Saarland. "... and this is the gate of heaven" (= memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. 2). Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , pp. 173-175.
- Dieter Michaelis, Jutta Hager-Latz (ed.): The Jewish cemetery in Guntersblum. = The Jewish Cemetery in Guntersblum. State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 2001.
Web links
Commons : Guntersblum Jewish Cemetery - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Guntersblum Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica (with photos)
- Guntersblum Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 2.3 " N , 8 ° 20 ′ 8.3" E