Alzey Jewish cemetery

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Monument zone “Old Jewish Cemetery” in the municipal cemetery of the city of Alzey.
Monument zone "New Jewish Cemetery".

The Jewish cemetery Alzey is a cemetery in the association-free city of Alzey in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

The Jewish cemetery is located in the municipal cemetery on Berliner Strasse.

In the 3498 m² cemetery, which was laid out in 1810, occupied from 1810 to 1940 and then again in 1945 and 1955, there are 239 (according to other information 178 + 161 = 339) tombstones . The cemetery was expanded in 1870 and 1905. On the older part of the burial ground (1810–1870) there are some gravestones from the former cemetery (see below).

Former cemetery

Parking lot at the site of the former Jewish cemetery.
49 ° 44 ′ 55 "N, 8 ° 6 ′ 41" E

There are no more gravestones in the former cemetery on Antoniterstraße (formerly “Am Judengraben”), which was occupied between 1685 and 1810. This cemetery was destroyed in 1938. Today the area is partly newly built, and there is partly a parking lot on the property.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alzey Jewish cemetery (old) at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
  2. ^ Jewish cemeteries in Alzey near Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 2.2 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 49 ″  E