Jewish cemetery (Sobědruhy)
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '34.6 " N , 13 ° 51' 4.7" E
The Jewish cemetery of Sobědruhy is located in the western part of the village Sobědruhy , which has been part of Teplice ( Ústecký kraj , Czech Republic ) since 1960 .
The cemetery was laid out in 1669. Until the inauguration of the first Jewish cemetery in Dresden in 1751, Jews from Saxony, e. B. from Dresden and Freiberg , buried. In the early 19th century it was expanded and got its current size of 3496 m². There were burials here until the Second World War .
In the 1950s, the cemetery was devastated, some tombstones were sold as cut stones and the celebration hall was demolished. In 2002 the cemetery with around 200 tombstones, the oldest of which dates from the 17th century, was restored and is freely accessible again. In the cemetery were u. a. buried the following people:
- Jeruchim Katz († 1669) - oldest tombstone,
- the community leader Jekutiel bar Zebi († 1692),
- the Kabbalistic scholar Zacharias Mendel († 1712),
- the rabbi Reb David ben Simon († 1719),
- the philanthropist Jonas recte Amiti († 1736) and
- the rabbi Heinrich Galandauer († 1900).
The Friends of the Dresden Synagogue supports the Jewish community of Teplice with the structural redesign of the old cemetery.
Next to this cemetery there has been the New Jewish Cemetery in Teplice since 1862 . The Old Jewish Cemetery in Teplice was closed in 1862, it no longer exists.
The former synagogue of Soborten stood in Judengasse (later Tempelstrasse, today Stará Ulice) and was demolished in 1958 after being damaged in the Second World War.
The cemetery is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
The Jewish cemetery in 1930
Today's view of the old part of the cemetery
Baroque tombstone
Old tombstone
Modern part of the cemetery
Modern part of the cemetery
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/fulltext/AC07942390/621/ History of the Jews in Soborten, from "The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present I. A compilation published by Hugo Gold, 1934, Jüdischer Buch- and art publisher, Brno-Prague "
- ↑ http://www.zanikleobce.cz/index.php?detail=1456471 Disappeared places and objects
- ↑ Gärtner, Tomas: Totenreise über Erzgebirge - Help from Dresden for a 300 year old Jewish cemetery near Teplice, Dresdner Latest News No. 196, from 23/24. August 2014, p. 14
- ↑ http://www.jpreisler.com/SobedruhyHistorical.htm The Jewish community in Sobedruhy
literature
- Hugo Gold (Ed.): The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present. A compilation. Volume 1. Jewish book and art publishing house, among others, Brno among others 1934.
- Blanka Rozkošná, Pavel Jakubec: Židovské památky Čech. History a památky židovského osídlení Čech. = Jewish monuments in Bohemia. ERA, Brno 2004, ISBN 80-86517-64-0 , p. 360, (Jewish sights in Bohemia: history and monuments of the Jewish settlement in Bohemia).
- Petra Večeřová: Židovské památky v Čechách, na Moravě, ve Slezsku. Olympia, Prague 2009, ISBN 978-80-7376-142-4 , p. 151, (Jewish monuments in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia).
