Jewish cemetery (Mladá Boleslav)
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '23.3 " N , 14 ° 54' 9.2" E
The Jewish cemetery in Mladá Boleslav (German Jungbunzlau ), a Czech town in the Central Bohemian region of Středočeský kraj north-east of Prague , was first mentioned in 1584.
The Jewish cemetery was expanded in 1715. and today has an area of 13,454 m². For a long time it was assumed that the oldest tombstone in the Jewish cemetery dates from 1604, but tombstones from the 16th century have recently been discovered.
Only parts of the cemetery have been preserved after the Second World War , and some buildings have been restored later. In the ritual hall from 1889 there is an exhibition on the history of the Jewish community in Mladá Boleslav, and in the morgue there is an exhibition on Jewish burial rituals.
Jewish cemetery in Mladá Boleslav
Tahara house
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area , 3 volumes, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 , keyword Schüttenhofen (Bohemia) , online at: Jewish-communities. de / ...
- ↑ Jiří Fiedler: Židovské památky v Čechách a na Moravě , keyword Sušice , online at: holocaust.cz / ...
- ↑ a b c Pavel Frýda: Mladá Boleslav-synagoga (Jungbunzlau Synagogue) - Stručně k historii židovské komunity v Mladé Boleslavi , Portal Zaniklé obce a objekty / Disappeared places and objects, online at: zanikleobce.cz/
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).
