New Jewish cemetery (Sušice)
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '27 " N , 13 ° 30' 29.2" E
The New Jewish Cemetery in Sušice (German Schüttenhofen), Okres Klatovy district in the south-west Bohemian region of Plzeňský kraj , Czech Republic , is the younger of the two Jewish cemeteries in Sušice, which are the only reminder of the city's Jewish population. It was laid out around 1875 and served as a burial place until 1946.
history
Until 1875, burials took place in the old Jewish cemetery , the capacity of which was no longer sufficient (despite several extensions). Therefore, a new cemetery was created around 1875, which was located southwest (about 900 meters from the old cemetery) outside the city limits at that time.
The tombstones are rather untypical, they are mostly more modern tombstones made of dark to black stone. The inscriptions are mostly bilingual: Hebrew-German or Hebrew-Czech. The last funeral took place in 1946.
The New Jewish Cemetery has been a protected cultural monument since 1992 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Židovské památky , website of the city of Sušice, online at: susice-sumava.cz / ...
- ↑ Jiří Fiedler: Židovské památky v Čechách a na Moravě , keyword Sušice , online at: holocaust.cz / ...
- ↑ Description as a cultural monument, portal of the National Monument Institute NPÚ, online at: monumnet.npu.cz / ...
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 version ).
- Kajetán Turek: History of the Jews in Schüttenhofen . In: Hugo Gold , The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present, Jüdischer Buch- und Kunstverlag, Brno / Prague 1934, pp. 587–593 ( online ) at the Upper Austria Regional Library . (Czech, not evaluated)
