Jewish cemetery (Lauterbourg)

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Gravestones in the Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery (French: Cimetière juif ) in Lauterbourg in northern Alsace is the burial place of the small town's former Jewish community.

history

For a long time the deceased members of the Jewish community of Lauterburg in the Palatinate, traceable since the Middle Ages, were buried. The Jewish cemetery in neighboring Weißenburg has served as a burial place since the beginning of the 18th century .

Around 1875, permission for a cemetery was then granted in Lauterburg. It was laid out outside the city fortifications, south of the Christian cemetery . The oldest grave still in existence today dates from 1877.

During the Second World War, three quarters of the approximately 40 members of the Jewish community were deported and murdered, and the synagogue was largely destroyed by fire in a German attack on the city in June 1940. After the war ended, Jewish life came to a standstill and the cemetery was profaned in 1964.

Web links

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

• Jewish cemetery in Lauterburg near Alemannia Judaica
• Jewish cemetery (Lauterbourg) in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '23.6 "  N , 8 ° 11' 5.9"  E