New Jewish Cemetery (Fürth)

View over the New Jewish Cemetery to the funeral hall, 2011

The New Jewish Cemetery is one of two burial sites of the Israelite religious community in Fürth . The cemetery has been in use since 1906.

location

The cemetery is located at Erlanger Straße 99 in the Ronhof district at the adjacent municipal main cemetery to the south. The Regnitz river valley runs to the west of the cemetery .

history

Mourning Hall, 2011

Warrior and Holocaust Memorial, 2011

Memorial stone from the Finkenschlag DP camp, 2011

The Jewish community in Fürth grew rapidly in the second half of the 19th century. Industrialization attracted many Jewish merchants from the rural areas of Franconia . After it became apparent that the capacity of the old cemetery was no longer sufficient, the Jewish community acquired a plot of land north of the municipal main cemetery in 1880, which was opened in 1881. At the time, the property was located far outside the city in a community forest in the Ronhofer area. The New Jewish Cemetery was inaugurated in 1906.

The mourning hall , built in 1901/02, was designed by the renowned Fürth architect Adam Egerer in the neo-renaissance style. In the building, which was renovated several times after 1945, the names of 890 Jews from Fürth who were murdered during the National Socialist era have been placed on stone tablets since July 1997 .

A war memorial commemorates the members of the Fürth Jewish community who died in World War I. In front of it is a memorial stone for the victims of the Holocaust . There is another Holocaust memorial with Hebrew inscription nearby. It was set up in the Finkenschlag DP camp in 1947 and moved to its current location in 1949.

The New Jewish Cemetery was desecrated in 1928. Further devastation took place during the National Socialist era , with the mourning hall also being badly damaged. The cemetery is still used by the Israelite religious community in Fürth today as the final resting place for their dead. A comprehensive documentation of the tombs with detailed biographical information on the deceased was published in 2019.

Graves of famous people

• Nathan Krautheimer (1854–1910), entrepreneur and founder ( Krautheimer Krippe )
• Jean Mandel (1911–1974), co-founder of the regional association of Jewish religious communities in Bavaria
• Hugo Nothmann (1889–1979), teacher
• Leo Rosenthal (1886–1958), member of the Fürth city council, board member of the Israelite religious community in Fürth
• Jakob Salzträger (1912–1998), Schammes , board member and honorary chairman of the Fürth Jewish community
• David Spiro (1901–1970), rabbi in the Warsaw Rabbinate , co-founder of the Israelite religious community in Fürth after the Second World War

See also

• Old Jewish Cemetery (Fürth)
• Deportation and flight of Jews from Fürth

literature

• Gisela Naomi Blume, Society for Family Research in Franconia (ed.): The new Jewish cemetery in Fürth, history - graves - fates. VDS - Verlagdruckerei Schmidt Neustadt / Aisch, 2009, ISBN 978-3-929865-75-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FürthWiki: Fürth - Jewish cemetery . As of April 6, 2011.
2. ↑ Alemannia Judaica : Fürth - Jüdische Friedhöfe . As of April 6, 2011.
3. ↑ Gisela Naomi Blume: The new Jewish cemetery in Fürth. History - graves - fates. Nuremberg: GFF 2019 (Personal History Writings, 12). ISBN 978-3-929865-75-2

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 38 ″  E