Jewish cemetery (Sankt Ottilien)

Jewish cemetery in Sankt Ottilien

Tombstones

The Jewish cemetery in Sankt Ottilien , a district of the Upper Bavarian municipality of Eresing in the Landsberg am Lech district , was established in 1945. The Jewish cemetery , east of the monastery cemetery and separated from it by a wall, is a protected architectural monument . It is maintained by the Bavarian Memorials Foundation .

After the end of the Second World War , the Allies set up a hospital for former Jewish concentration camp prisoners in the Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien , mainly from the Kaufering VI satellite camp . Similarly, there were displaced persons accommodated. Until the hospital was closed in 1948, there was a Jewish community here that maintained its religious life.

Between 1945 and 1968 , 65 people of Jewish faith were buried in the cemetery, which is outside the monastery grounds opposite the St. Ottilien train station . In 1950 the cemetery was redesigned and memorial and gravestones were erected. A fencing wall with an iron gate was also built. After exhumations , the cemetery has been occupied with 46 deaths from concentration camps and nine deceased slave laborers since 1972 . The buried came from Russia, Poland, Hungary, Italy, France and Germany.

literature

• Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 , p. 168 .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (St. Ottilien)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '38.9 "  N , 11 ° 2' 52.6"  E