Jewish cemetery (Meiningen)

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Gravesite of Gustav and Fanny Strupp

The Meiningen Jewish Cemetery is located in the district town of Meiningen in southern Thuringia .

history

After all Jews were expelled from the city of Meiningen in 1566, Jews were again allowed to settle in Meiningen from 1840. Until then, the Jewish families lived in a few neighboring towns and maintained their cemeteries there. Around 1870 there were already 316 Jews living in the city again, but they still had to use the old cemeteries in the neighboring communities. As a result, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Meiningen , founded in 1866, acquired a plot of land north of the Meiningen Parkfriedhof and inaugurated the new Jewish cemetery in 1870. It was designed and laid out according to the Jewish cemetery tradition, strictly architectural and treeless. The cemetery survived the period of German National Socialism relatively unscathed and only suffered minor damage from air raids in World War II. The last burial took place in 1944. After German reunification, some new grave sites were added for Jewish citizens who perished in concentration camps.

Location and graves of well-known personalities

The approximately 2500 m² cemetery is delimited by fences and plants in a long and narrow strip on the northwest edge of the Meiningen Park Cemetery and, as the property of the Thuringian Jewish State Community, is not part of the Park Cemetery. In the cemetery with a central avenue there are still 150 tombstones ( mazewot ), most of which date from the first half of the 20th century and are often inscribed in Hebrew . The oldest gravestone dates from 1889.

A number of personalities have found their final resting place in the Jewish cemetery in Meiningen. Among them are some state rabbis of Saxony-Meiningen , the actor and director Ludwig Chronegk , the banker Gustav Strupp and his wife Fanny Strupp as well as Pauline Reis, whose tombstone was designed by the architect Walter Gropius .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reissland and Pfannschmidt: The Meininger Parks. Publishing house Resch, Meiningen 2012.
  2. ^ Lexicon on the history of the city of Meiningen Bielsteinverlag Meiningen, 2008.

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 5 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 21 ″  E