Jewish cemetery (Sohren)

Jewish cemetery in Sohren

The Jewish cemetery Sohren is the burial place of the Jews in Sohren , a community in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Jewish cemetery is a protected cultural monument , it is located northeast of the village in a wooded area north of federal highway 50.

history

The Jewish community in Sohren built its own cemetery before 1850. It has an area of ​​29.47 ares and today there are 49 tombstones ( mazewot ). The oldest is from 1864 and the last burials took place in 1952 and 1965. In 1978 the cemetery was deedicated by the Koblenz Jewish Community and placed under monument protection in 1992.

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 edition ).
• Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (= memorial book of synagogues in Germany. Vol. 2). 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 , pp. 234-235.

Web links

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

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the synagogue (at the bottom)
2. ↑ On the history of the cemetery

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '31.9 "  N , 7 ° 19' 2.7"  E