Jewish cemetery (Weitersweiler)
The Weitersweiler Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Weitersweiler , a local community in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is a protected cultural monument .
description
The almost 700 m² cemetery is located about one kilometer east of Weitersweiler in the direction of Marnheim on the continuation of the Marnheimer Weg in Gewann Häferberg. Burials were carried out from the 18th century to 1917. 21 tombstones from the period from 1772 to 1917 have been preserved, as well as the original cemetery wall.
history
The information about when the cemetery was created vary and contradict each other: 1821 / “probably created after 1850” / according to the sign at the entrance not until 1870. During the Nazi era , the cemetery was destroyed and largely cleared. After 1945 the tombstones that could still be found were put up again on part of the cemetery property.
See also
literature
- Bernhard Kukatzki : The Jewish burial place in Weitersweiler. Cemetery for the villages of Weitersweiler and Dreisen. Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Pfalz, Landau in der Pfalz 1995.
Web links
- Jewish cemetery in Weitersweiler near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
- Jewish cemetery in Weitersweiler at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- Jüdischer Friedhof Weitersweiler on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of cultural monuments in Weitersweiler
- ^ Alemannia Judaica
- ↑ List of cultural monuments in Weitersweiler
Albisheim | Alsenz | Breunigweiler | Dielkirchen (old cemetery) | Dielkirchen (New Cemetery) | Gauersheim | Gaugrehweiler | Göllheim | Ilbesheim | Kirchheimbolanden | Marienthal | Münsterappel | Upper Muschel | Rockenhausen | Steinbach am Donnersberg (old cemetery) | Steinbach am Donnersberg (New Cemetery) | Teschenmoschel | Waldgrehweiler | Weitersweiler | Winnweiler | Wurzweiler
Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 55.9 ″ N , 8 ° 0 ′ 40.5 ″ E