Jewish cemetery (Oettingen)

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Jewish cemetery in Oettingen

The Oettingen Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Oettingen , a town in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries . The cemetery is on the outskirts at Mühlstrasse 44.

history

The Jewish community of Oettingen buried its dead in the Middle Ages in the Jewish cemetery in Nördlingen , then in the Jewish cemetery in Wallerstein . The own cemetery in Oettingen was laid out in 1850.

In the 24.20 ares large cemetery there are still 319 tombstones ( Mazewot ), including 36 children's tombstones . The cemetery is surrounded by a wall, which is interrupted by two entrance gates. The smaller gate leads to the Tahara house, which is still inhabited today .

time of the nationalsocialism

During the Nazi era , the cemetery was desecrated in 1938.

Tahara house

Commemoration

Memorial stone

Another stone tablet reads: You who let me see a lot of hardship and suffering, you will revive me again and raise me up again from the depths of the earth Ps. 71/20. To their Jewish German fellow citizens for atonement and honor City of Oettingen i. Bay.

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online edition ).
  • Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Published by the Bavarian State Center for Political Education in Munich. Bayerische Verlags-Anstalt, Bamberg 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X , pp. 260-261.
  • More than stones ... Synagogue memorial ribbon Bavaria. Volume I . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt and Angela Hager with the assistance of Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans Christof Haas and Frank Purrmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-411-3 , pp. 522-529.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 36 ′ 33 ″  E