New Jewish Cemetery (Roudnice nad Labem)
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 37.2 ″ N , 14 ° 14 ′ 15.8 ″ E
The New Jewish Cemetery Roudnice nad Labem is located in Roudnice nad Labem (German Raudnitz an der Elbe ), a town in the northern Bohemian region of Ústecký kraj in the Czech Republic .
The Jewish cemetery , which is opposite the municipal cemetery, was rebuilt in 1890 and has an area of 4,473 m². In the socialist era, almost all tombstones were stolen as building material and the wall around the cemetery was almost completely destroyed. After a fire in 1985 were from the funeral hall in the Moorish only the outer walls remain style. After 1990, the outer wall of the cemetery was renewed and the cemetery was secured against vandalism. Only ten tombstones from the years 1899 to 1943 have survived. From 2002 the cemetery will be reconstructed.
See also
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online edition ).
Web links
- Helen Epstein : The House on Jan Hus Street , New York Times , November 4, 1990 (accessed December 16, 2013)
- Description (accessed January 14, 2015)
