Jewish cemetery (Schweppenhausen)

The Jewish cemetery Schweppenhausen is a cemetery in the local community Schweppenhausen in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

The Jewish cemetery is outside the map, about a kilometer south of the center of the country road L 242 above the sports field on the Kalleberg. It can be reached on foot from the sports field via steep forest paths.

In the 1175 m² cemetery, which was probably laid out in the first half of the 19th century and occupied until 1926, there are 35 tombstones . The oldest still legible tombstone dates from 1869, the last burial took place in 1926. During the Nazi era , the cemetery was devastated and some of the tombstones stolen. After 1945 the cemetery was restored.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Schweppenhausen # Monument zones

literature

• Documentation of Jewish graves in the Bad Kreuznach district. History and design. Series: Heimatkundliche Schriftenreihe des Landkreis Bad Kreuznach Volume 28. 1995. pp. 379–390.
• Nicole Schonard: The Jewish cemetery in Schweppenhausen in the third school year. In: SACHOR. Contributions to Jewish history and memorial work in Rhineland-Palatinate. Edited by Matthias Molitor and Hans-Eberhard Berkemann in collaboration with the State Center for Political Education Rhineland-Palatinate. Published by Matthias Ess Verlag in Bad Kreuznach. 8th year, issue 2/1998, issue no. 16, pp. 63–64. (Online: [1] )

Web links

• Jewish cemetery Schweppenhausen at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Jewish cemetery Schweppenhausen near Alemannia Judaica (with ten photos)

Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 9.2 "  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 11.3"  E