Jewish cemetery (Mutěnín)

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Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 27.4 "  N , 12 ° 45 ′ 8.7"  E

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Jewish cemetery in Mutěnín

The Jewish cemetery Mutěnín is a Jewish cemetery in Mutěnín (German Muttersdorf ), a municipality in the Plzeňský kraj region in southwest Bohemia .

The cemetery southeast of Mutěnín was rebuilt in 1642. During the Second World War it was devastated by the Nazis . The old synagogue was demolished in 1860, and a new synagogue built in 1923 was also devastated by the Nazis.

162 tombstones or their fragments have been preserved in the 1151 m² cemetery . The oldest gravestones date from the first half of the 18th century.

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