Jewish cemetery (Bad Rappenau)

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Gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Bad Rappenau
There are also several broken pillars of life under the tombs

The Bad Rappenau Jewish cemetery is a well-preserved Jewish cemetery in Bad Rappenau in the Heilbronn district ( Baden-Württemberg ).

description

The cemetery on Siegelsbacher Straße has a size of 479 m² and is surrounded by a knee-high wall. There are 49 tombstones ( mazewot ) on it. The cemetery was occupied from 1881 to 1944.

history

The Jews from Bad Rappenau and from 25 other Jewish communities in the area buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Heinsheim since the 16th century . It was not until 1881 that the Jewish community in Bad Rappenau received its own burial site, where members of the Jewish community in Wimpfen were also buried, before their own Jewish cemetery was established in Wimpfen in 1896.

The people buried in the cemetery include members of the factory owner families Grötzinger (oil and fat goods factory Grötzinger in Siegelsbach, today Mann & Schröder ) and Herbst (corset factory Herbst in Rappenau, today Felina in Mannheim).

At the Jewish cemetery in Bad Rappenau, some children of Christian Soviet forced laborers were buried in 1944, as well as four prisoners of the concentration camp foreign command who had died in the recovery of duds in 1945 in the Bad Rappenau salt works .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Göller: The Rappenau Jewish Cemetery - Volume 3 , in Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 23, December 2012, pp. 2-6.
  2. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 . P. 22

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '46 "  N , 9 ° 5' 55.3"  E