Crailsheim Jewish cemetery
The Crailsheim Jewish Cemetery is located in Crailsheim , a town in the Schwäbisch Hall district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The Jewish cemetery is located on today's northeastern edge of the town in front of the Karlsberg on Beuerlbacher Straße.
The dead of the Jewish community in Crailsheim were previously buried in the Jewish cemetery in Schopfloch ( Ansbach district ). In 1841 the own cemetery was built on Beuerlbacher Straße, which covers an area of 24.93 acres , which was covered with six to nine long parallel rows. Today there are still 415 tombstones ; the oldest dates from 1841. The sandstone of the old tombs in the northeastern area of the cemetery has been weathered to the point of illegibility. The last burial took place in 1968.
What is striking in this cemetery is the large number of couple graves: Since a grave must not be touched and there was obviously no lack of space, family partners are buried in graves next to each other, with largely the same maze.
In the cemetery there is a memorial plaque for the seven Jewish fallen from Crailsheim in World War I , which was originally attached to the synagogue .
A memorial with the names of the Crailsheim Jews murdered during the National Socialist era was also installed.
literature
- Joachim Hahn , Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities (= memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. Vol. 4). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 .
Web links
- Crailsheim Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Crailsheim Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 39 ″ N , 10 ° 4 ′ 37 ″ E