Freistett Jewish Cemetery

The cemetery is on the L87 ...

... and is surrounded by a hedge.

The Jüdische Friedhof Freistett is a Jewish cemetery in Freistett , a district of Rheinau in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg . The cemetery is a cultural monument worth protecting .

The dead of the Jewish community of Freistett were first buried in the Jewish cemetery in Kuppenheim . A separate cemetery was built around 1810, located on Bundesstraße 36 in the Gewann Hungerfeld . The Jewish cemetery has an area of ​​29.40 ares and today there are still 618 tombstones ( Mazevot ). The cemetery was the association cemetery of the following Jewish communities: Bodersweier , Freistett , Kehl (until 1924), Lichtenau and Rheinbischofsheim . The oldest tombstone is from 1817, the last burial took place in 1939.

There is a cemetery on the war memorial for the First World War fallen parishioners of the Jewish community Lichtenau .

See also

• Jewish Community of Freistett
• Synagogue (Freistett)

literature

• 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).

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Freistett  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information on the Freistett Jewish Cemetery in the list of Jewish cemeteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Central Archives for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Information on the Freistett Jewish Cemetery at Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 56 ′ 21 ″  E