Jewish cemetery (Heilbad Heiligenstadt)
The Jewish cemetery in Heiligenstadt in the Heilbad Heiligenstadt ( Eichsfeld district , Thuringia ), on the corner of Schillerstrasse and Ibergstrasse, was laid out in 1817 by the Jewish community . Several dozen tombstones are still preserved. The cemetery is currently surrounded by a simple wooden fence.
After medieval persecution and pogroms in the city, a new community of around 80 Jewish immigrant citizens emerged in the middle of the 19th century. In 1882 the Israelite Congregation had grown to 107 members. The Jewish family names Oppenheim , Loewenthal , Katz and Grunsfeld can be found in contemporary Heiligenstadt civic registers over a long period of time; in the case of job details, they are usually listed as independent merchants. The thriving Jewish community in Heiligenstadt also perished as a result of racist persecution in the 1930s; it was considered completely wiped out in September 1942.
The cemetery was desecrated by strangers at Easter 2010.
literature
- Rolf Barthel: On the history of the Jewish communities on the Eichsfeld and in Mühlhausen (II) . In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte . Issue 3, 1988, ISSN 0232-8518 , p. 195-203 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 21.6 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 1.5 ″ E