Jewish cemetery (mother city)
The Jewish cemetery in Mutterstadt is a fairly well-preserved Jewish cemetery in Mutterstadt in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). It is a protected cultural monument .
In the cemetery on the street “Am Pfalzring” there are 88 gravestones for Jews from Mutterstadt and the surrounding area who died between 1890 and 1980.
history
The Jewish cemetery in Mutterstadt was laid out in 1889 and was first used in 1890. The dead from the Jewish communities in the region were buried in Wachenheim and Fußgönheim in front of the cemetery . In 1922 the cemetery was expanded and in 1925 and 1938 it was desecrated. The cemetery is a stone testimony to the memory of the Israelite religious community in Mutterstadt, which was extinguished during the Nazi era .
literature
- Bernhard Kukatzki and Mario Jacoby: The Jewish cemetery in Mutterstadt. A documentation. Schifferstadt 1993
- Bernhard Kukatzki: The Jewish cemetery in Mutterstadt. In: Contributions to Jewish history in Rhineland-Palatinate. 4 1994.1 = H. 6, pp. 3-15
Web links
- Jewish cemetery in Mutterstadt at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- The Jewish cemetery in Mutterstadt
- Jewish cemetery Mutterstadt near Alemannia Judaica
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 41.8 " N , 8 ° 21 ′ 41" E