Kittsee Jewish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery Kittsee is located in the market town of Kittsee in the Neusiedl am See district in Burgenland . The Jewish cemetery is a listed building .
history
The Jewish cemetery is directly adjacent to the former bulk box of the old castle . On an area of 1163 square meters there are 230 tombstones , which were mainly made of Mühlendorfer marble or sandstone.
Kittsee belonged to the Burgenland Siebengemeinden , where Jews were allowed to settle under the protection of Prince Esterházy since 1670 . In 1735 there were 266 Jews in Kittsee, in 1821 there were 789. Due to strong emigration in the decades that followed for economic reasons, their number fell to 62 by 1934. In 1938 the Jewish community of Kittsee was finally destroyed. In mid-April 1938, the Jewish residents of Kittsee and the neighboring community of Pama were taken from their homes at night, expropriated and placed on a sand island in the Danube . The refugees were found by residents of the Czechoslovak village of Devín (now a district of Bratislava ) and temporarily housed. Finally, Jewish aid organizations in Bratislava were able to enable the deported Kittsee Jews to emigrate to various host countries.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Marillengemeinde Kittsee - Historical walk through Kittsee , website www.kittsee.at, accessed on February 10, 2016
- ↑ Kittsee Jewish Community , website regiowiki.at, accessed on February 10, 2016
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '36.7 " N , 17 ° 4' 1.4" E
