Jewish cemetery Gries (Palatinate)

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The Jewish cemetery Gries is a closed cemetery in the local community Gries (Pfalz) in the district of Kusel in Rhineland-Palatinate .

The Jewish cemetery is located about 500 meters northwest of the local development in the area of ​​the "Judengraben" corridor.

There are no more gravestones on the 1230 square meter cemetery, which was laid out around 1700 and was probably occupied until 1824 .

The cemetery served the Jews in Steinbach am Glan , Brücken , Börsborn , Nanzweiler , Haschbach , Bettenhausen and Waldmohr as a burial place. It was fully occupied by 1824 and was closed. Instead, a new cemetery was created in neighboring Steinbach . Today nothing is left of the entire cemetery complex. There is an orchard on the site. The field name “Judengraben” has been preserved as a reminder of the cemetery.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 26.8 "  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 31.2"  E