Jewish cemetery (Schweich)

Jewish cemetery in Schweich

The Jewish cemetery Schweich is an old burial place of the Jews in Schweich , a town in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate . He is in the garden field , at the end of the dead end. The Jewish cemetery is a protected cultural monument .

history

The Jewish cemetery in Schweich is mentioned for the first time in 1776. It was occupied until 1938 and today there are 88 tombstones ( mazewot ) in the cemetery .

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 version ).
• Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , ( Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany 2), pp. 338–341.

Web links

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

• Jewish cemetery Schweich near Alemannia Judaica
• Jewish cemetery Schweich at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 37.5 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 8 ″  E