Jewish cemetery (Treuchtlingen)

Jewish cemetery in Treuchtlingen, 2011

Jewish cemetery in Treuchtlingen, 2011

The Jewish cemetery in Treuchtlingen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen is a Jewish burial site that was laid out in 1773 and was used until the 1930s.

location

The 4,260 square meter cemetery, surrounded by a massive stone wall, is located on Uhlbergstrasse in a residential area at the foot of the Schlossberg.

history

Tahara house in the Jewish cemetery in Treuchtlingen, 2011

The memorial erected in 1990 on the Jewish cemetery in Treuchtlingen, 2011

→ Main article : Jewish community Treuchtlingen

In 1773 the Jewish community in Treuchtlingen, with the support of the religious communities in Markt Berolzheim and Dittenheim, was able to acquire a plot of land to set up its own cemetery. The year on the Tahara House , completed in 1779, reminds of the construction of the burial ground, which at that time was still outside the city. The Jewish cemetery, where the deceased from Ellingen and Weimersheim had been buried since the middle of the 19th century , was expanded in 1857 and 1929.

During the rule of National Socialism there were serious attacks against the Jewish population. The Jewish cemetery in Treuchtlingen was desecrated in 1938. Many tombstones ( mazewot ) were also destroyed by an air raid on April 11, 1945 . Between 1945 and 1950 the bomb craters were refilled and the damage repaired as far as possible. The Tahara House was converted into a residential building in 1938 and has been preserved. There are still 318 tombstones in the cemetery, mostly newer and sometimes very elaborately designed tombstones.

memorial

Since November 9, 1990, a memorial by the local artist Franz Peter Burger has been commemorating the victims of the Nazi tyranny at the southern entrance to the cemetery . The monument made of Treuchtlinger marble represents a combination of a menorah and a tree of life. Both parts are connected or separated by a small flame. It symbolizes both the immeasurable suffering that was done to the Jewish fellow citizens, as well as healing, purification and new life.

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
• Israel Schwierz: Stone evidence of Jewish life in Bavaria. A documentation . Ed. from the Bavarian State Center for Political Education . Munich 1988, pp. 200-201, ISBN 3-87052-393-X

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} House of Bavarian History : Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria - Treuchtlingen . As of November 12, 2011.
2. ^ Alemannia Judaica : Treuchtlingen - Jewish cemetery . As of November 8, 2010.
3. ↑ Information board at the cemetery entrance. Status: November 2011.

Web links

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

• Michael Trüger: The Jewish cemetery in Treuchtlingen . In: The National Association of Israelites. Religious communities in Bavaria. No. 65 (10th year). March 1995. pp. 18-19.

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 19 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 16 ″  E