Jewish cemetery (Bad Mingolsheim)

Jewish cemetery in Bad Mingolsheim, total view.

The Jewish Cemetery Bad Mingolsheim is a Jewish cemetery in Bad Mingolsheim , a district of the municipality of Bad Schönborn in the northern Baden-Württemberg . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument .

Memorial plaque on the wall of the Jewish cemetery.

The Jewish community of Bad Mingolsheim had buried their dead in the Obergrombach Jewish cemetery until 1878 . The Jewish community Mingolsheim's own cemetery was built in 1878 and is enclosed by a stone wall. It has 154 graves and is located at the end of today's Konradin-Kreutzer-Straße on the northeastern edge of the village. He is 24 ares tall. The oldest tombstone is from 1878 and the youngest from 1939.

At the cemetery were beside the Mingolsheimer Jews and the Jews from Malsch and Östringen buried.

Commemoration

A plaque with the following inscription was placed in the cemetery :

"In memory of the victims of the Israelite community of Mingolsheim, who lost their homes or had to give their lives during the years of the National Socialist tyranny (1933-1945)."

"Their suffering calls for the defense of human rights and resistance against the unlawful persecution of those who think differently."

literature

• Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial Book of the Synagogues in Germany . Volume 4), pp. 38–40.
• Willy Messmer: The Jewish cemetery . Bad Schönborn 1988. [not evaluated]

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Bad Mingolsheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mingolsheim Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Mingolsheim Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '22 "  N , 8 ° 39' 55"  E