Rexingen Jewish cemetery

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Entrance to the Rexingen Jewish cemetery
Rexingen Jewish cemetery

The Rexingen Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Rexingen , a district of Horb am Neckar in the Freudenstadt district in northern Baden-Württemberg . It is a protected cultural monument .

The Jewish community of Rexingen buried its dead in the Mühringen Jewish cemetery before its own cemetery was established . Between 1760 and 1770 a Jewish cemetery measuring 64.09 ares was established . Today there are still 936 tombstones ( Mazewot ), the oldest stone dates from 1765.

In the cemetery there is a war memorial for the Jewish soldiers who died in the First World War . In 1947 a memorial was erected for the Jewish victims of the National Socialism .

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).
  • Carved in stone. Traces of life in the Jewish cemetery in Rexingen. Edited by the city archive Horb u. from the sponsoring and support association Former Rexingen Synagogue, 2nd edition, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1296-1 . [not evaluated]

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 11 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 0"  E