Steinbach Jewish Cemetery (Schwäbisch Hall)
The Jewish cemetery Steinbach is a Jewish cemetery in Steinbach , a residential district of Schwäbisch Hall in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in northern Baden-Württemberg .
The dead of the Jewish community Steinbach were buried first in the Jewish cemetery Schopfloch ( district of Ansbach ) and from 1747 on the Jewish cemetery in Braunsbach . In 1809 a separate cemetery was built on Steinbacher Strasse, roughly opposite today's Limpurg Bridge. The Jewish cemetery has an area of 35.03 acres , around half of which are located on a partly quite steep slope next to the road, which above turns into a flat terrain platform. Today there are still 121 tombstones ( mazewot ), a good third of which are in a close chain directly next to the road, with inscriptions to the rising slope, in the upper part of which three short, apparently original rows face the valley. Most of the flat terrain is a meadow without any stones. The occupation time was from approx. 1812 to 1948.
A special feature of the gravestones in the Steinbacher Friedhof are the artistic shapes used to abbreviate Hebrew words instead of the usual dots on 18 gravestones. Among other things, there are various branch, flower and bud motifs, heart, horn, fish and star.
The cemetery was destroyed during the Nazi era , and only some of the tombstones could be put up again after 1945. Since 1947, memorial stones have been commemorating the victims of the Hessental concentration camp and the victims of National Socialist persecution from Schwäbisch Hall .
literature
- Heinrich Kohring: The Jewish cemetery in Schwäbisch Hall-Steinbach , Schwäbisch Hall 1996.
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. 3 volumes. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 .
- Joachim Hahn , Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities (= memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. Vol. 4). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 .
Web links
- Jewish cemetery Steinbach at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- Steinbach Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kohring 1996, pp. 30/31.
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 11.5 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 36.4" E