Jewish cemetery (Slavkov u Brna)
Ruin of the Tahara house
The Jewish cemetery in Austerlitz (Czech Slavkov u Brna ), a town 20 kilometers east of Brno in the Czech Republic , was laid out around 1745. The Jewish cemetery , located north of the city by the St. Urban Chapel, is a protected architectural monument .
history
The old Jewish cemetery in Austerlitz, on the road to Zdánice, had to be abandoned because it blocked the owner of the manor house from having a clear view of his castle. Some of the tombstones were moved to the new cemetery.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).
Web links
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Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 57.3 " N , 16 ° 52 ′ 42.6" E