Jewish cemetery (Hennweiler)

The Hennweiler Jewish Cemetery is a cemetery in the Hennweiler parish in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

The Jewish cemetery is on the northeastern outskirts on the corner of Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße / In Ambrach.

There are about 30 tombstones in the 615 m² cemetery, which is surrounded by a hedge .

At the entrance there is a large plaque with information on the former Jewish residents of Hennweiler and Bruschied and a reference to memorial stones on the community cemeteries of Hennweiler and Bruschied.

history

The cemetery was laid out before 1811 (probably around 1800) and was occupied until the first half of the 20th century and then again in 1985 and 1986. Since 1895, the deceased Jews from Bruschied were also buried in Hennweiler. In 1938 the cemetery was desecrated : the tombstones were overturned and the fencing destroyed. In 1939 the Jews had to sell their synagogue and cemetery to the political community. In 1939/40 the trees in the cemetery were felled by soldiers stationed in Hennweiler. The cemetery should be cleared and sold as building land. Some of the tombstones were stolen, some used as building material.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Hennweiler # Monument zones

Web links

• Jewish cemetery Hennweiler near Alemannia Judaica (with 10 photos and a drawing)
• Hennweiler Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 21 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 22.6 ″  E