Jewish cemetery (Gunzenhausen)

The Gunzenhausen Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish burial site in Gunzenhausen , a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia .

The 32.8 ares large cemetery originally contained 400 to 500 graves.

history

Former Tahara house

A Jewish cemetery is documented in Gunzenhausen as early as 1460, but it was destroyed (probably in 1539; after the Jews were expelled); its location is unknown.

Until the inauguration of today's Gunzenhausen cemetery on August 26, 1875, the deceased local Jews were buried in Bechhofen . The first burial in the Gunzenhausen cemetery was that of Hugo Eichbaum on October 3, 1875. It also served as the final resting place of the deceased Jews from Altenmuhr , Markt Berolzheim , Cronheim and Heidenheim . After the First World War , the cemetery was expanded.

In 1929 the cemetery was desecrated when 18 tombstones were torn from the ground and smashed. During the Nazi regime, tombstones were used for road construction and the cemetery was leveled. Of the original more than 400 tombstones, 41 were brought back and placed in new locations within the cemetery. After 1945 the Tahara house was converted into a residential complex.

In 1948 a Holocaust memorial was erected on the cemetery grounds.

literature

Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Middle and Upper Franconia. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-572-8 , pp. 106-109 (with many photos)

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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