Jewish cemetery (Hechingen)

Jewish cemetery in Hechingen

The Jewish cemetery Hechingen is a cemetery in the district of the city of Hechingen in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg . It is a protected cultural monument .

description

The Jewish cemetery is located on the so-called Galgenrain between Hechingen and Sickingen to the north not far from the L 410. There are a total of 651 tombstones . The oldest surely dated gravestone dates from 1747.

history

Karoline Kaulla's grave monument

The cemetery was probably occupied from the middle of the 17th century until 1941 and then again in 1958, 1995 and since 2002.

Originally, the cemetery, outside the city and near the gallows , was not fenced. It was not until 1764 that Karoline Kaulla (1739–1809), one of the greatest court factors in her time and the richest woman in Germany, was able to obtain permission for a fence. In 1800 the area was walled and the nearby gallows also disappeared.

Karoline Kaulla and Julius Koch (1816–1895), royal Württemberg court fruit traders and Albert Einstein 's maternal grandfather , are buried in the Jewish cemetery.

The cemetery was desecrated in 1990 and 1993 : in 1990 95 tombstones were overturned and smeared with swastikas ; In 1993, 15 tombstones were knocked over and partially destroyed.

Because of the rising terrain, the cemetery is threatened by landslides. For this reason, the cemetery wall is to be renovated in 2018 with the support of the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation and named the cemetery monument of the month November 2018 .

Mourning hall

literature

Otto Werner: Synagogues and Jewish cemetery in Hechingen. Series of publications by the Old Synagogue Hechingen Association. Vol. 1. Hechingen / Albstadt 1996.
N / A: Hechingen's Jewish cemetery . In: Denkmalstimme 4/2017, published by the Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg, pp. 1–4.