Jewish war memorial (Diespeck)

War memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Diespeck

The Jewish war memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Diespeck , a community in the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district in Central Franconia , was inaugurated on August 19, 1923. The war memorial created by the stonemason Heinrich Kraft, like the entire cemetery, is a protected cultural monument .

description

The monument was built in honor of the First World War fallen soldiers from the Jewish community Diespeck built. In the background of the cemetery, directly in front of the cemetery wall, a memorial stone under a steel helmet with a sword in a laurel wreath contains the following dedication: The isr. Congregation in faithful memory of their sons who died for their fatherland and among them 1914 - 1918 .

To the right and left as well as in front of the memorial stone there are eleven symbolic gravestones on which the names of the fallen are immortalized.

Web links

Commons : Jewish War Memorial  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the Jewish war memorial at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilse Vogel: The desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Diespeck . (accessed November 30, 2014)

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 46 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 36 ″  E