Alsheim Jewish cemetery

View of the cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Alsheim is a Jewish cemetery in the local community Alsheim in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The cemetery, which is located east of the village at the confluence of Gimbsheimer Strasse and Bundesstrasse 9 , is a protected cultural monument.

history

The Jewish cemetery was laid out in 1896. Previously, the dead of the Alsheim Jewish community had been buried in the Jewish cemetery in Osthofen since 1840 . The Jewish community members who died in Mettenheim and Gimbsheim also found their final resting place in the Jewish cemetery in Alsheim . The area of ​​the cemetery is 6.38 ares.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Alsheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jewish cemetery Alsheim at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Jewish cemetery Alsheim near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)

Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 1.9 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 7.2 ″  E