Weingarten Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Weingarten is a Jewish cemetery in Weingarten , a municipality in the district of Karlsruhe in northern Baden-Württemberg . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument .

The dead of the Jewish community of Weingarten were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Worms until 1632 and then in the Jewish cemetery in Obergrombach . In 1833 a separate cemetery was set up; Nevertheless, Weingarten Jews partially used the Obergrombach cemetery until 1924, apparently because relatives were buried there. The Weingartener Friedhof in Gewann Effenstiel has an area of ​​14.25 acres and today there are 35 tombstones , including four for children. A memorial plaque in the cemetery for seven Jewish victims of the First World War from Weingarten comes from the local synagogue, which was devastated in the November pogroms in 1938 and torn down a short time later. A Weingarten Jew had taken the memorial plaque into safekeeping; Presumably in 1940 it was set up in the cemetery before 23 of the 24 Jews still living in Weingarten were deported in the Wagner-Bürckel campaign in October 1940 .

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. 507–509.
• Hayo Büsing: The history of the Jews in Weingarten (Baden). From the beginnings in the Middle Ages to the Holocaust. Weingarten Citizens and Local History Association, 1991.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 22 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 28 ″  E