Jewish cemetery (Sulzbach)
The Sulzbach Jewish Cemetery in Sulzbach-Rosenberg , a town in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach ( Bavaria ), was established in 1668. The Jewish cemetery at Etzmannshof , north of the city near the sports park, is a protected architectural monument .
history
After Jews were able to settle again in Sulzbach in 1666, Duke Christian August gave them permission to build a cemetery on a plot of land in the so-called ore shell . In May 1668 the first burial was carried out with the funeral of Feustel Bloch.
At the end of the 17th century a stone wall was built around the cemetery. In the 19th and 20th In the 19th century there was repeated serious damage from the Maxhütte mining operations around the cemetery .
In the 21.50 ares large cemetery there are still 356 tombstones ( Mazewot ). The last funeral took place in 1936. When a cemetery was desecrated in 1972, numerous gravestones were knocked over.
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 ).
- Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Ed. from the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 1988, pp. 285f., ISBN 3-87052-393-X .
Web links
- Sulzbach Jewish Cemetery at the Central Archives for Research into the History of Jews in Germany , 2010
- Jewish cemetery Sulzbach near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
- Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria: Sulzbach
City of Amberg:
Amberg |
District Amberg-Sulzbach:
Sulzbach-Rosenberg
District Cham:
Cham
District Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate:
Neumarkt idOPf |
Sulzbuerg |
Töging
district Neustadt an der Waldnaab:
Raft |
Neustadt adWaldnaab
City of Regensburg:
Regensburg
City of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate:
Weiden idOPf.
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 59 " N , 11 ° 44 ′ 27.2" E