Jewish cemetery (Lichtenfels)

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The Lichtenfels Jewish cemetery is located in Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia .

Lichtenfels Jewish cemetery
Tombstone
Memorial stone

history

A modern Jewish community emerged in Lichtenfels in the second half of the 17th century. The deceased were buried in Burgkunstadt . The community was allowed to create a Jewish cemetery in 1840. The catchment area of ​​the burial place included the Jewish communities in Lichtenfels and Seubelsdorf . A Tahara house did not exist because the Jews were allowed to use the morgue of the city cemetery. Family graves were in use from the last third of the 19th century.

There were desecrations in 1918 and March 1930. The last burials were on January 12, 1940 and January 1941. There were a total of 157 burials. In 1940 the city of Lichtenfels confiscated the younger part of the cemetery. This was followed by the transfer of the mortal remains of the Jews buried here to Burgkunstadt. The surrounding sandstone wall and almost all of the tombstones were destroyed in 1941 and were used in road construction. On September 3, 1942, the Reich Association of Jews sold the burial place for 100 Reichsmarks to the city, which undertook not to use the burial ground for 30 years.

On September 7, 1952, a memorial stone with the names of 25 murdered Jews from Lichtenfels was inaugurated.

Location and characterization

The cemetery is located east of the Lichtenfels city center, in the “Heide” corridor, on an elevation on the “An der Friedenslinde” street. The area of ​​the originally much larger cemetery now covers 1,500 square meters. Only five tombstones ( Mazewa ) are left.

literature

  • Lothar Mayer: Jewish cemeteries in Middle and Upper Franconia . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, pp. 118–121, ISBN 978-3-86568-572-8

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Lichtenfels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 44 ″  E