Jewish cemetery (Zeckern)

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Jewish cemetery in Zeckern, on the right the memorial stone for the victims of National Socialism, January 2011

The Jewish cemetery in Zeckern is a monument protected Jewish cemetery . It is located in the district of Zeckern in the Hemhofen community in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district ( Bavaria ).

description

Part of the cemetery, January 2011

The cemetery, first mentioned in documents in 1606 , was probably built in the 14th or 15th century. Until the creation of many new Jewish cemeteries in the 19th century, it was a district cemetery with a catchment area that stretched from Büchenbach in the south to Hirschaid in the north and from Vestenbergsgreuth in the west to Forchheim in the east.

The 15,169 m² Jewish cemetery is one of the largest and oldest cemeteries in Bavaria. Documentations in 1970 and 1979 counted 1522 graves with around 800 tombstones on them. It is estimated that around 6,000 Jews were buried in the cemetery .

A 1998 capped memorial stone near the cemetery entrance is reminiscent of 31 members of the Jewish community Adelsdorf , in the era of National Socialism were murdered.

Tahara house

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection, Monument Info , accessed on February 4, 2010

literature

  • More than stones ... Synagogue memorial ribbon Bavaria. Volume II . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt, Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans-Christof Haas and Angela Hager with the assistance of Frank Purrmann and Axel Töllner with a contribution by Katrin Keßler. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-448-9 , p. 29.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 39.2 ″  E