Ladenburg Jewish cemetery

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Ladenburg

The Jewish cemetery from the west

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

The dead of the Jewish community of Ladenburg were buried in the Middle Ages in the Jewish cemetery in Worms and from 1674 to 1847 in the association cemetery , the Jewish cemetery in Hemsbach . In 1848 a separate cemetery was built on the edge of the Christian cemetery. The Jewish cemetery has an area of ​​7.92 acres , and 96 tombstones remain today. The oldest gravestone dates from 1849, the last burial took place in 1938.

literature

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

Web links

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

• Ladenburg Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Ladenburg Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• Ladenburg Jewish Cemetery on YouTube

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 38.6 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 22.6"  E