New Jewish Cemetery (Esslingen)
The New Jewish Cemetery in Esslingen am Neckar , a town in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg , was laid out in 1874. The cemetery on Landenberger Straße is a protected cultural monument .
history
After the old Jewish cemetery was fully occupied, a new Jewish cemetery was created within the Ebershalden cemetery in 1874 . It has an area of 5.72 ares and today there are 75 tombstones ( mazewot ). The oldest tombstone is from 1874 and the last burial took place in 1979.
The Jewish cemetery was also occupied several times after 1945. On the area that was unoccupied until 1945 there are graves of the dead from the Echterdingen concentration camp who were transferred here in 1947, with a memorial site.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
- Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 112–116, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).
- Joachim Hahn: Jewish life in Esslingen. History, sources and documentation . Esslingen studies. Series of publications, vol. 14. (edited by the Esslingen am Neckar city archive). Sigmaringen 1994. [not evaluated]
Web links
- New Jewish cemetery (Esslingen) at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- New Jewish cemetery (Esslingen) near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 25.8 ″ N , 9 ° 19 ′ 8.6 ″ E