Sontheim Jewish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery Sontheim is a Jewish cemetery in Sontheim , a district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg . It is a cultural monument worth protecting .
The cemetery , a community cemetery for the Jewish communities of Sontheim , Talheim and Horkheim , is located in the Schozach district and is 2937 m² in size. It was laid out in 1841–1844 and significantly expanded in 1912. Before 1842 the dead of the Jewish community of Sontheim were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Affaltrach .
Of the total of 308 gravestones , around 120 of which are from Talheim Jews, the oldest is dated to 1842, the youngest to 1943. The physician Ludwig Essinger is one of the people buried in the cemetery . A tombstone from 1420, found in 1855 during excavation work for Heilbronn's Karlshafen am Neckar , is embedded in the southern cemetery wall, a remnant of the late medieval second Jewish cemetery in Heilbronn, which was across from the city on the other side of the Neckar.
In the period between April 20, 2017 and May 2, 2017, the Jewish cemetery was desecrated. A total of ten gravestones and memorial stones were damaged. There was property damage in the amount of 4,000 euros.
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), p. 198.
- Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Heilbronn district . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 261 .
Web links
- Sontheim. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany; here: Baden-Württemberg; Version: November 2000
- Sontheim Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Digital edition: Jewish cemetery Heilbronn-Sontheim (1842−1940 / 294 inscriptions) at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mitteilungsblatt Talheim, No. 30, July 30, 2010, p. 10.
- ↑ A hitherto unknown perpetrator damaged a total of ten gravestones and memorial stones in the Jewish cemetery in Sontheim's Gewann "An der Schozach" between Thursday, April 20 and Tuesday, May 2. In: Heilbronn voice . May 5, 2017 ( from Stimme.de [accessed May 5, 2017]).
Affaltrach | Bad Rappenau | Bad Wimpfen | Berwangen | Eppingen | Heilbronn | Heinsheim | Ittlingen | Kochendorf | Neckarsulm | Neudenau | Oedheim | Schluchtern | Sontheim | Stone on the stove
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 43 " N , 9 ° 10 ′ 46.5" E