Jewish cemetery Hockenheim

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Jewish cemetery in Hockenheim

The Jewish cemetery Hockenheim is a Jewish cemetery in Hockenheim , a town in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument .

The dead of the Jewish community Hockenheim were first on the Association Cemetery , the Jewish cemetery Wiesloch , buried. In 1879 a separate cemetery was built on Heidelberger Strasse, which has an area of ​​5.72 acres . Today there are 53 tombstones left . The oldest gravestone is from 1880, the last burial took place in 1977.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 35"  E