Jewish cemetery Kobersdorf
The Kobersdorf Jewish Cemetery is located in the market town of Kobersdorf in the Oberpullendorf district in Burgenland . The Jewish cemetery is a listed building .
The cemetery was laid out in the 16th century on a slope of the Lampelberg.
Today the cemetery is on the edge of the forest. Around 1200 tombstones have been preserved on 5690 m² .
There is a Genisa grave on the site . This goes back to the discovery of a tombstone fragment. It is Austria's oldest and only one of its kind from before 1945. Only the Genisagrab, built in 1987 at the Vienna Central Cemetery, is known. According to the inscription, 13 Torah scrolls are hidden in the tomb .
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).
Web links
Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Kobersdorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Burgenland 1976 . Jewish cemetery, on the edge of the forest. P. 155.
- ↑ Kobersdorf juedische-friedhoefe.at, accessed on March 17, 2016
- ↑ Genisa grave in Kobersdorf - April 20, 1938. Retrieved on December 3, 2019 (German).
Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '43.8 " N , 16 ° 23' 8.9" E
