Königheim Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery in Königheim (2018)

Sign for the "Jewish cemetery" in Königheim

The Jewish cemetery in Königheim is a Jewish cemetery in Königheim , a municipality in the Main-Tauber district in northern Baden-Württemberg .

history

The dead of the Jewish community in Königheim were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Külsheim . 1875 a private cemetery in was Won Bach Bright built. The Jewish cemetery has an area of ​​7.64 acres ; today there are still 66 tombstones . The oldest gravestone is from 1876, the last burial took place in 1935.

In the cemetery there is a war memorial for the four Jewish soldiers who died in the First World War from Königheim.

See also

• Jewish community of Königheim

literature

• Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).

Web links

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

• Königheim Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Königheim Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 4 ″  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 7 ″  E