Eichtersheim Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery in Eichtersheim

The Eichtersheim Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Eichtersheim , a district of the Angelbachtal community in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument .

The dead of the Jewish community in Eichtersheim were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Waibstadt . In 1781 a separate cemetery was built on the road to Wiesloch . The Jewish cemetery has an area of ​​10.52 acres and there are still 143 tombstones today. The oldest tombstone is from 1845, the last burial took place in 1949.

literature

• Leonhard Dörfer: Jewish life in Eichtersheim . Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-678-8 .
• Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial Book of the Synagogues in Germany . Volume 4), pp. 10-11.

Web links

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

• Eichtersheim Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Eichtersheim Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• Eichtersheim Jewish Cemetery on YouTube

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 48 ″  E