Philippsburg Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery in Philippsburg

The Philippsburg Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Philippsburg , a town in the Karlsruhe district in northern Baden-Württemberg . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument .

The dead of the Jewish community in Philippsburg were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Obergrombach . In 1889 a separate cemetery was set up, which is located in the Huttenheim district in Gewann Im Sandfeld on the wall . The Jewish cemetery has an area of ​​11.95 acres and today there are 47 tombstones .

The first burial took place in 1890 and the last to be buried was Moritz Neuburger, who was a Jewish teacher in Philippsburg from 1889 to 1938 . He returned to Heidelberg from emigration after 1945 and was buried in the cemetery in 1954.

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), pp. 380–381.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 58 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 32"  E