Jewish cemetery (Meisenheim)

The Meisenheim Jewish Cemetery is a cemetery in Meisenheim in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Since October 17, 1988, it has been a protected cultural monument.

The well-preserved Jewish cemetery is located in the so-called Bauwald , east of the road from Meisenheim to Rehborn . There are around 110 tombstones on it . Probably the first burial took place in the Jewish cemetery at the beginning of the 18th century. The last burial took place in 1938.

literature

• Maren Heyne: Quiet gardens - eloquent stones. Jewish cemeteries in the Rhineland. Bonn 1994, pp. 148–151 (photos, etc.)
• Jewish graves in the Bad Kreuznach district. History and design. Part 1. A documentation of the Bad Kreuznach district administration and the Rhineland-Palatinate Pedagogical Center. Series: Heimatkundliche Schriftenreihe des Landkreis Bad Kreuznach Volume 28. Bad Kreuznach District Administration (Ed.), Bad Kreuznach 1995, pp. 305–332

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 12.9 "  N , 7 ° 40 ′ 32.7"  E