Jewish cemetery (Küps)

The Jewish cemetery in Küps , a market town in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach , was a Jewish burial place from the 16th to the 19th century.

The cemetery was in the middle of the village and was bordered by Kulmbacher Straße, Ringstraße and Judengasse. It has been documented since 1597, and a tombstone was dated 1611. In 1830 the burials were stopped because the cemetery was in the middle of town. The Jewish community was asked to move to an area outside the village or to use the cemetery in Burgkunstadt . During the Nazi dictatorship , the market town acquired the cemetery in 1939, removed the tombstones and, from 1944, used it for purposes other than intended. Today there is a playground on the site. Efforts are being made to point out the history of the burial site.

literature

• Günter Dippold: The Jewish cemeteries in the vicinity of Burgkunstadt. To the Jewish cemetery in Küps . In: Josef Motschmann / Siegfried Rudolph: "Good place" above the Main valley - the Jewish cemetery near Burgkunstadt . Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense , Lichtenfels 1999, pp. 129-134.
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Ed. from the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X , p. 213.

Web links

• Location on the Bavarian premiere in the BayernAtlas
• Entry in the Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 27.7 ″  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 55.3 ″  E