COMMENT: The Jews of Billigheim buried their dead in Queichhambach (now part of 76857 Annweiler am Trifels) prior to having their own cemetery; Hermann Arnold (1991)includes a chronological catalogue of burials without dates or names.
Source: http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/aj/FRIEDHOF/PFALZ/PROJEKTE/f-rlp-gm.htm#Ingenheim [translated from German October 2007]
INGOLSTADT: 85049 Bavaria (Peters)
Near Munich. Established in 1907, cemetery is part of municipal Westfriedhof. Key is available from cemetery attendant. Includes a memorial for victims of mass murders. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
INGSTADT: (Original source of listing unknown: this is probably a misspelling of Igstadt, above, q.v.)
IPHOFEN: 97346 Bavaria .
See Ingenheim Judenfriedhof bei Iphofen und die Juden in Roedelsee by Geor Spath, in: Dorfinde: Beil, zu Scheinfelder Kurier 12 (1936) Nr. 27, 28 Jebenhausen
IPTHAUSEN: 97631 Bavaria (Gerz, Peters). Rhoen-Grabfeld: 14 recognizable tombstones, including 4 which were turned over. Vandalized 1921, 1925, 1933. Memorial plaque. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
IRREL: 54666 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
ISERLOHN: 58638, 58640 North Rhine-Westphalia
1) Doerdelweg auf der Alm 2) Ot. Letmathe-Oestrich; (Gerz, Peters).
ISSUM: 47661 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz, Peters)
Xantener Weg .
ITTLINGEN: 74930 Baden-Württemberg.(Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Heilbronn.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Bergstraße (Detail).
IN USE: From 1887 until 1938.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 58.
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German April 2008)LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Bergstraße (Detail).
IN USE: From 1887 until 1938.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 58.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones and cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1991 complete cemetery documentation with photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt, ed. Barbara Döpp).
- Numerous photographs of gravestones and general cemetery view in Alemannia Judaica.
- Overall photographic cemetery view in Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig. #98.
- Until 1819 the Ittlingen Jewish community used the cemeteries of Heinsheim and Waibstadt. From 1819 until 1887 they used the cemetery in Eppingen Angerbauer 1986, page 120 and Hahn 1988, page 231. The community established their own cemetery in 1887.
[29 April 2008]
J
JASTROW:
Cemetery list. Source: LBI
JEBENHAUSEN: 73035 Baden-Württemberg (Peters)
See Goeppingen, Württemberg http://worldzone.net/family/jebenhausen/cemetery.html
JEMGUM: 26844 Lower Saxony (Gerz, Peters).
JERICHOW: 39319 Saxony-Anhalt (Gerz, Peters).
Am Waldhang ausserh. des Ortes;
JESBERG: 34632 Hesse (Gerz, Peters).
Jesberg used the cemetery at Haarhausen 1774-1902. Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.
JESSNITZ, ANH: 06800 Saxony-Anhalt (Gerz, Peters).
JESTAEDT: 37276 Hesse (Gerz, Peters).
170 gravestones; used from 1642-1855. Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.
JEVER: 26441 Lower Saxony (Peters).
General names index. 220 tombstones (some not readable), 1796-1967. see book listed in Niedersachsen in General Section. Source: Tagger, Mathilde A. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.
UPDATE:
DISTRICT: Frisia
CEMETERY LOCATION : about 4 km south-east of Jever-Hohewarf, on the road to Cleverns
COORDINATES: Latitude: 53.551769 / Longitude: 7.8843
IN USE: first mentioned 1587 as "Judenkirchhof" (Jewish cemetery) in City documents without precise location. Later burial records date from 1796 to 1941, 1967 and 1983
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 221 gravestones preserved. Last funeral in 1983
AREA OF CEMETERY: currently 16.18 acres
COMMENTS: A cemetery was established in 1779 following an influx of Jewish families during the 18th century . Up to then Jews living in Jever are assumed to have brought their Dead for burial to Neustadtgödens or Wittmund. The date of the oldest gravestone is 1796. Nearly all gravestones were toppled over during the Nazi period and numerous surrounds of graves were damaged. A plan exists since 1944 to use the cemetery as a storage area for road and construction materials, which is no longer pursued. The cemetery was refurbished after 1945 which included new memorials for Fallen Jewish soldiers of the first World War, Jews murdered during the Nazi period and a tablet in memory of the destroyed synagogue. The cemetery is now being cared for by the Protestant-Lutheran church of Jever. The key to the cemetery can be obtained from the church office at Kirchplatz
DOCUMENTATION: 1979 by Groningen (photos, copy and translation: all gravestones)
PUBLICATIONS: History, photos, inscriptions by Töllner 1983 pages 25-184.
HISTORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY: online Alemannia Judaica
COMMENT: an older cemetery was located on the outskirts of Jever - Töllner 1983 page 25.
SOURCE: Alemannia Judaica and Uni-Heidelberg
[translated from German November 2007]
JEVER-SCHENUM: 26441 Lower Saxony (Gerz, Peters).
JOACHIMSTHAL: 16247 Brandenburg (Gerz, Peters).
JOEHLINGEN: 75045 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters, Zentralarchiv).
Unpublished documentation in the Office of Protection of Monuments 1993. Bearbeiterin: Barbara Doepp.
JÖLLENBECK: 33739 North Rhine-Westphalia (now Bielefeld). See Enger
JOHANNISBERG:
See OESTRICH.
JOSBACH: 35282 Hesse (now Rauschenberg)
Used the cemetery at Halsdorf 1909-1931. Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.
Josbach was incorporated in Rauschenberg
35288 Halsdorf s. Wohratal
35288 Wohratal-Halsdorf, cemetery location unknown
35282 Rauschenberg, Hesse, District of Marburg-Biedenkopf
JUECHEN: 41363 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz, Peters).
I, Alleestr. II
JUELICH: 52428 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
JUELICH Duchy
Grabsteine Erinnern und Mahnen; zur Geschichte der juedischen Friedhoefe im Kreise Juelich/ von Thiel, NorbertJuelich: J.Fischer, 1972. 72-89p. illus. 23cm. (In Heimatkalender des Kreises Juelich, 1972, 22 Jahrg.) ID # GT 3250 J84 T5 Source: LBI The Jewish cemetery at Mlada Boleslav by Vladimir Sadek in Judaica Bohemiae 18 (1982) S., 50-54
JUGENHEIM: 55270 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
Jugenheim used the cemetery at Alsbach 1727-1928. Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission. Begräbnisstätte am Judenbegräbnis
K
KAERNTEN
Juedische Grabsteine in Kaernten by Josef Babad; In: Monatsschrift fuer Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums 80 (1936), S. 52-57
Kaernten is a state in Austria; it is not a location in Germany.
KAISERSESCH: 56759 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
http://www.harryw.de/Juden/life.html
KAISERSLAUTERN: 67657 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
Owned and maintained by Rheinpfalz. Plat Nr. 2451/2. Size: 3,310 sq. meters; opened 1858; within the public cemetery. Source: Ernest B. Nathan with permission from Juedische Kultusgemeinde der Rheinpfalz.
KAISERSWERTH: 40489 North Rhine-Westphalia (now Duesseldorf) see Duesseldorf
40489 Duesseldorf - Kaiserswerth, North Rhine-Westphalia. City: Duesseldorf. ADDRESS: Alte Landstrasse, Ecke Zeppenheimer Weg
IN USE: from 1892 to 1942
GRAVESTONES: 11
DOCUMENTATION:
1985 - 1987 by Michael Brocke (Photos of all stones)
PUBLICATIONS:
Register of graves, History by Lohausen 1981, pages 101 - 104.
History by Brocke 1988, page 89
History by Suchy 1997, page 87
History by Pracht - Jörns 2000, pages 51 and 71
Translated Oct. 2007
KALDENKIRCHEN: 41334 North Rhine-Westphalia
1) Akazienweg 2) Stieger Tor, Jahnstr. (Gerz, Peters).
KALEFELD: 37589 Lower Saxony Ot. Echte. (Gerz, Peters).
KALKAR: 47546 North Rhine-Westphalia Wallstr. (Gerz, Peters).
KALL: 53925 Rhineland-Palatinate Bergstr. (Gerz, Peters).
KALLETAL: 32689 North Rhine-Westphalia Ot. Hohen-Bruch. (Gerz, Peters).
KAMEN: 59174 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz, Peters).
KAMP-LINTFORT: 47475 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz, Peters).
KARBACH: 97842 Bavaria Unterfranken (Gerz, Peters).
Old part of cemetery has many nice tombstones, also smaller newer section. Memorial. Vandalized in 1981. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
KARGE: Cemetery list. Source: LBI
Unknown place; could be 88138 Kargen or 8743x Kargen, now Kempten/Allgäu ?
KARLSBERG: 8781 Bavaria (Gerz).
Possibly 85221 Dachau ?
KARLSRUHE: 76131 and incorporating 76229 Grötzingen, Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Karlsruhe
LOCATION OF 5 CEMETERIES: 1. Mendelssohnplatz, 2. Kriegstraße, 3 & 4. Haid- und Neu-Straße and 5. Grötzingen
(translated from German May 2007)LOCATION OF 5 CEMETERIES: 1. Mendelssohnplatz, 2. Kriegstraße, 3 & 4. Haid- und Neu-Straße and 5. Grötzingen
- 1. Mendelssohnplatz.
IN USE: From 1723 until 1826.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: None remaining.
PUBLICATIONS:
- History by Gumprich 1898.
- History by Theobald 1984, pages 78-79.
- History in Karlsruhe 1988, pages. 262-265.
- In 1723 this was the 1st Jewish cemetery in Karlsruhe. It was enlarged in 1756 and again in 1794. It was finally closed for burials in 1826.
- From 1826 onwards burials took place at the cemetery located at the eastern part of Kriegstraße.
- In the 1880s the Karlsruhe City authorities attempted to do away with this cemetery on the Mendelssohnplatz to make way for housing developments, against very strong protests from the Jewish community. In 1897 the Jewish community received compensation, when the cemetery was expropriated and taken over by the City. In 1898 the remains of the graves were exhumed, with the majority being re-interred in the meanwhile closed cemetery in the (Kriegstraße). Individual gravestones were either re-erected above the new graves or, in the case of communal graves, positioned leaning against the cemetery wall. (Information from Gumprich 1898 and also Karlsruhe 1988, pages 262-265). Those remains not re-interred here were re-buried in the new orthodox cemetery at Kriegßtraße 36 (see next cemetery below).
- 2. "Old Cemetery" Kriegsstraße 36 (Detail - lower middle bottom arrow)
IN USE: From 1826 until 1896, when it was closed although a few individual burials took place up to and including the 1930s.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 1,150.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1985 photographs of all gravestones with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1989 grave register using these photographs by Zentralarchiv (ed. Andreas Gotzmann).
- 1995 full cemetery documentation with the use of these photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamted. Barabara Döpp, Frowald GilHüttenmeister and Monika Preuß), Zentralarchiv copy: five volumes (= Karlsruhe 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ).
- 1998 using the corresponding photographs, translation of 133 selected gravestone inscriptions by Andreas Gotzmann.
- Numerous photographs of gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic cemetery overview by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, figs. # 103 and 106.
- History in Karlsruhe 1988, pages 265-266.
- The earthly remains of the Mendelßohnplatz graves were re-interred here in 1898. Most of the gravestones were placed alongside the cemetery wall, except those of a few prominent Jews which were re-erected over individual graves.
- 3. Orthodox Haid- und Neu-Straße 41 - 45 (Detail - arrow top right).
LOCATION: The Liberal and Orthodox cemeteries are side-by-side, adjoining the Karlsruhe City general cemetery.
IN USE: From 1872 until about 1940, 1971 and 1984, when it was closed although a few individual burials took place up to and including the 1930s.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 377.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones (368) with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1994 full cemetery documentation with the use of these photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamted. Monika Preuß). Zentralarchiv copy: two volumes (see Karlsruhe 1 and 2) .
- Numerous photographs of gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic cemetery overview by Theobald 1984, page 95.
- History in Karlsruhe 1988, page 266.
- Gräber, Grüfte, Trauerstätten. Der Karlsruher Hauptfriedhof by Karl Zahn published by the Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe through Ernst Otto Bräunche, 224 pages with 30 colour and 107 black/white photographs, hard cover, ISBN 3-88190-282-1.
- The orthodox section of the cemetery was dedicated in 1872 by the orthodox minority of the Jewish community in Karlsruhe, having earlier separated from the rest of the community in 1869.
- All gravestones carry Hebrew inscriptions only.
- The earthly remains from the graves belonging to the Ettlinger family, exhumed from the Mendelßohnplatz cemetery, were re-interred here in graves along the rear wall of this cemetery.
- This cemetery is not open for visits by the general public.
- 4. "New Cemetery" (Liberal) Haid- und Neu-Straße 41 - 45 (Detail - arrow top right).
LOCATION: The Liberal and Orthodox cemeteries are side-by-side, adjoining of the Karlsruhe City general cemetery.
IN USE: dedicated in 1876 and still in use now.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 1,034 in 1987.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones by Zentralarchiv.
- 2003 full and complete cemetery documentation including the use of 157 selected gravestone photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt ed. Guido Kleinberger). This documentation includes a burial register provided by the Cemetery and Funeral Office of the City of Karlsruhe dated 19 March 2002. Zentralarchiv copy : 8 volumes (see Karlsruhe 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 ).
- Numerous photographs of gravestones and various general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- History in Karlsruhe 1988, pages 266-270.
- Gräber, Grüfte, Trauerstätten. Der Karlsruher Hauptfriedhof by Karl Zahn published by the Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe edited by Ernst Otto Bräunche, 224 pages with 30 colour and 107 black/white photographs, hard cover, ISBN 3-88190-282-1.
- In the entrance to the mortuary are commemorative plaques in honour of the fallen WW1 soldiers of the Karlsruhe and Pforzheim Jewish communities.
- There is also a commemorative stone recording the names of Karlsruhe Jews who were deported and then perished during the Nazi era.
- Visits of this cemetery only in exceptional circumstances by permission of the Karlsruhe Jewish Community and the City's Cemetery and Burial Office. (Friedhofs- und Bestattungsamt).
- 5. Karlsruhe - Grötzingen "Junge Hälden" Werrabronner Straße.
IN USE: Dedicated around 1900/1905 until 1935 (oldest gravestone identified dated 1905).
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 13.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1992 full cemetery documentation with the use of these photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamted. Barabara Döpp.
- Numerous photographs of gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic cemetery overview in Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.#76
SOURCES: University of Heidelberg, Alemannia Judaica and City of Karlsruhe Jüdische Friedhöfe.
[14 May 2008]
KARLSTADT, MAIN incorporating LAUDENBACH: 97753 Lower Franconia, Bavaria (Gerz, Peters).
DISTRICT: Main-Spessart.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: end of Am Schloßberg, Laudenbach (Detail).
IN USE: From about 1600 (if not earlier) until last burial in January 1941 of Julius Rotfeld from Urspringen.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: Originally estimated 3,500, now approx. 2,350 remaining.
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German May 2008)LOCATION OF CEMETERY: end of Am Schloßberg, Laudenbach (Detail).
IN USE: From about 1600 (if not earlier) until last burial in January 1941 of Julius Rotfeld from Urspringen.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: Originally estimated 3,500, now approx. 2,350 remaining.
DOCUMENTATION:
- Numerous photographs of gravestones, historic as well as more recent, as well as general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- History in Laudenbach-Main (Community) and Laudenbach-Main (Cemetery).
- Israel Schwierz: Steinerne Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Bayern. A documentation by the Bavarian Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit. LBI.
- Michael Trüger: Der jüdische Friedhof Laudenbach/Unterfranken. In: Der Landesverband der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinden in Bayern. Jgr. 1998 13.Jg. Nr. 77 September 1998 page 30
- Baruch Z. Ophir/Falk Wiesemann: Die jüdischen Gemeinden in Bayern 1918-1945. Geschichte und Zerstörung. 1979 S. 346f LBI.
- Werner Zapotetzky: Jüdische Spuren in Laudenbach: Information for teachers published by the Stadtarchiv Karlstadt. Karlstadt 1997.
- Leonhard Scherg: Jüdisches Leben im Main-Spessart-Kreis. Pubished by Haigerloch in 2000.
- The cemetery in Laudenbach is the second largest Jewish cemetery in Lower Franconia.
- The oldest identifiable gravestone is that of a cemetery administrator who war laid to rest prior to 1655. Another, that of a grave digger, was buried in 1675.
- Up to 14 Jewish communities in the area jointly owned and used the Laudenbach cemetery which included the communities of Adelsberg, Hessdorf, Lohr, Urspringen, Gössenheim, Veitshöchheim and Laudenbach.
- In 1873/74 the cemetery was surrounded with a stone wall with four gates, consisting of a main entrance and three wooden gates.
- The cemetery was extended between 1850 and 1874, again in 1900/05 and finally in 1930.
- A large half-timbered mortuary for Taharah (Ritual cleansing) adjoins the main entrance, containing two interconnecting equally sized rooms, with each room having an individual entrance door.
- The first recorded desecration of the Laudenbach cemetery took place in June 1865, when almost all gravestones were demolished, including some graves even having been churned up.
- During the Nazi era funerals took place in an old, wooded and disused part of the cemetery, presumably in order to better prevent desecration.
- Partly during the Nazi era and partly due to heavy fighting in the area during WW2, the cemetery sustained heavy damage in 1945. The occupying American forces commanded the local population to restore the cemetery.
- Visits to the cemetery can be arranged by prior appointment or every 2nd Sunday in the month between 13:30 and 15:30. Contact: Georg Schnabel, Mühlbach, Laudenbacher Straße 1, 97753 Karlstadt, Tel/Fax: 09353/8638 or Mobile: 0173/1764817 or E-Mail georgschnabel@freenet.de
[24 May 2008]
KASSEL: 34132, 34123 Hesse Am Eichberg. (Gerz, Peters).
Fasanenweg. Inventory: 1. Ludwig Horwitz, Die Geschichte der Kasseler Juden bis zur Verlegung des Landesrabbinats von Witzenhausen nach Kassel, 1772;. 103 p. History from 13th to 18th century. Includes a sketch of the Jewish cemetery. in German; Donor: Louis Rosenzweig, 1958.; Period covered 1772-1936; 5 items; Location at LBI : Kassel; Jewish community collection; Storage-Location: A 23/1; Accession Number(s): AR 454. all by Ludwig Horwitz Der israelitische Friedhof zu Kassel in Hessenland 32 (1918) s. 135-37 Der israelitische Friedhof zu Cassel in Juedische Wochenzeitung fuer Kassel, Hessen und Waldeck 1 (1924) Nr. 16 Vom Friedhof der hiesigen Gemeinde. In Juedische Wochenzeitung fuer Kassel Hessen und Waldeck 3 (1926) Nr. 28 http://www.rp-kassel.de/themen/gesund-sozial/juedische-friedhoefe/friedhoefe1.htm http://www.rp-kassel.de/themen/gesund-sozial/juedische-friedhoefe/friedhoefe2.htm
KASSEL: (BETTENHAUSEN) 34123 Hesse
644 gravestones; used from 1647-ca. 1850. Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.
KASTELLAUN: 56288 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KASTER: 50181 Rhineland-Palatinate
Also used cemetery at Bedburg An d. Erft; wegen Kohleabbau n. Elsdorf verlegt; (Gerz, Peters).
KATZENFURT: 35630 Hesse (Gerz, Peters).
KAUB: 56349 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KAUFERING -NORD and -SUED: 86916 Bavaria (Peters)
Near Landsberg am Lech Both cemeteries are very well-kept, entrances are ten meters apart. Memorials to victims of concentration camps. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
KEHL Rhein 77694 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Ortenaukreis
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Friedhofstraße – Jewish section within the city’s general cemetery. (Detail)
IN USE: From 1924 until 1939, 1968, 1969, 1975 and still in use.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 17.
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German May 2008)
[May 21, 2008]LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Friedhofstraße – Jewish section within the city’s general cemetery. (Detail)
IN USE: From 1924 until 1939, 1968, 1969, 1975 and still in use.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 17.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones and cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1992 full cemetery documentation including the photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt ed. Monika Preuß).
- Photographic cemetery overview by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.#. 107.
- Numerous photographs of gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- The Jewish community of Kehl used the cemetery in Freistett for burials prior to 1924. (Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, page 151). Thereafter the community had their own Jewish section located within the city’s general cemetery.
- The Jewish section of the cemetery was vandalised in January 2005 when two teenagers climbed over the cemetery wall and spray-painted 13 of the 17 gravestones with swastikas and other Nazi slogans. A 13 year old girl and a 14 years old boy were apprehended and charged before court, where they admitted the offences. Similar instances of vandalism have been reported in the recent past in this part of the French/German border region, affecting Jewish and Moslem gravestones.
KEITUM: 25980 Lower Saxony an der Ostseite des Fr.; Einzelgrabstaette. (Gerz, Peters).
KELSTERBACH: 65451 Hesse
Abgeraeumt 1935. (Gerz, Peters). also see Gross Gerau. When Jews in Kelsterback requested space for a cemetery in 1889 they were told that as Jews lived with their Christian neighbors in town, so could they be buried with them. A cemetery was dedicated in July 1894. This made Kelsterback the only community in the Gross Gereau area with its own cemetery. In 1935, by order of the mayor, the stones were removed and destroyed. The area was seeded with grass and later became part of the general cemetery. A memorial plaque was suggested in 1945 and in 1950 a memorial stone was placed there. Source: p.374 of Verschunderne Nachbarn, by Angelika Schleindl. (Details in Gross Gereau)
KELZ: 52391 North Rhine-Westphalia (now Vettweiss) (Gerz).
52391 Kelz - Vettweiß, North Rhine-Westphalia. COMMUNITY: Vettweiß, District Düren. ADDRESS: Landstrasse 271, (close to a riding stable), direction Frauwuellesheim
IN USE: oldest and still legible gravestone dated 1873.
GRAVESTONES: 7
DOCUMENTATION:
1972 by Klaus H. S. Schulte (register of graves)
1975 by Stadtarchiv Düren (9 photos: gravestones)
1991 - 1993 by Dieter Peters (register of graves)
1993 - 1996 by Dieter Peters (11 photos: gravestones and views of cemetery)
PUBLICATIONS:
register of graves by Schulte 1972, page 301. history by Dowe 1989, page 91
register of graves by Peters 1993, page 182.
history by Pracht 1997, pages 132 and 161.
KEMNADE: 37619 Lower Saxony
Unter der Piese; 1 Grabstein. (Gerz, Peters).
KEMPEN: 47906 North Rhine-Westphalia
1) Oedter Landstr. 2) Ot. Schmalbroich, Muehlenweg (Gerz, Peters).
KEMPTEN: 87439 Bavaria Swabia (Gerz, Peters).
The well-kept Jewish section is adjacent to the Catholic cemetery. Two memorial markers for victims of the Nazi regime, including one for foreign workers and prisoners of war. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
KERPEN: 50169, 50170, 50171 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
Sindorferstr. Der juedische Friedhof in Kerpen ; Eine Aufnahme von Grabdenmaelern by Gert Ressel-Kerpen, 1978 ( Schriftkenreihe des Tagesheimgymnasiums des Stadt Kerpen; 4)
KESTRICH: 36325 Hesse (Gerz, Peters).
http://www.judaica-vogelsberg.de/friedhoefe/index.html
KETTWIG-ESSEN: 45219 North Rhine-Westphalia
COMMENTS:
I am very sorry not to be able to fullfill all these informations [requested in the cemetery questionnaire]. But there is a very nicely maintained, but no more in use, cemetery of about 50 ancient tombs, in the forest nearby of Kettwig-Essen in Germany. I've made this discovery during a walk in Kettwig region with my wife.
Source: Dann Olivier Alfandary November 2007
KIRCH-GOENS: 6308 Hesse (Gerz). Now 35510 Butzbach
KIEDESFELD: see Essing.
KIEL: 24114 Schleswig-Holstein (Gerz, Peters).
Michelsenstr. 22. Der juedische Friedhof: Namen, die keilner mehr kennt-in Begegnungen mit Kiel; Gabe der Christian-Alberts-Universitaet zur 750 Jahrfeier der Stadt " Paravicini, Werner u.s. (Hrsg.); Neumuenster; Wachholtz ca. 1986 s. 349-354 Verscharrt, verdraengt, vergessen; NS-Opfer auf dem Friedhof Eichhof, Kiel Kiel; Neuer-Malik-Verlag, 1992 32s.(Veroeff. des Beirats fuer Geschichte der Arbeitsbewegung und Demokratie in Schleswig-Holsteain 13)
KINDENHEIM: 67271 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
Owned and maintained by Rheinpfalz. Plat Nr. 2974. Size: 3,769 sq. meters; opened 1750. Source: Ernest B. Nathan with permission from Juedische Kultusgemeinde der Rheinpfalz.
KINDING: 85125 Bavaria Ot. Enkering. (Gerz, Peters).
KIPPENHEIM incorporating SCHMIEHEIM: 77971 Baden-Württemberg. (Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Ortenaukreis, community of Kippenheim.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: From Schmieheim on the road to Waldorf, fork to Altdorf. (Detail.)
IN USE: From 1701 (date of oldest identified gravestone) until 1941.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 2,491.
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German May 2008)LOCATION OF CEMETERY: From Schmieheim on the road to Waldorf, fork to Altdorf. (Detail.)
IN USE: From 1701 (date of oldest identified gravestone) until 1941.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 2,491.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1988 photographs of all gravestones (2.368) with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1990-1996 photographs of all gravestones in Schmieheim.
- 1994-1998 documentation with photographs of gravestones by Naftali Bar-Giora Bamberger.
- A large number of gravestone and general cemetery photographs are in Alemannia Judaica.
- History, overview and individual gravestones photographs by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, page 253, figs.# 187 and 189.
- History in Wimmer 1975.
- Photographic overview in Theobald 1984, page 99.
- Inscriptions and translations of 23 gravestones, including some photographs by Boll 1986.
- History by Macher 1987.
- History, inscriptions and translations of 4 selected gravestones by Uttenweiler 1988.
- History by Pommerening 1990, pages 99-102.
- History of the oldest gravestones (1701-1720) by Boll 1997a.
- History by Boll 1997b.
- Documentation by Bamberger 1999. (History, photographs of all gravestones, complete documentation of the older gravestones (about 530), basic documentationof the remaining gravestones).
- History by Boll 2000.
- Der jüdische Frieddhof in Schmieheim by the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde, Schmieheim.
- The creation of the Schmieheim cemetery was initiated in 1682 on the initiative of the Ettenheim Jewish community (see article by Günter Boll in Bamberger 1999, volume 2, pages 1069-1072, respectively Boll 2000). This cemetery was also used for burials by the communities of Altdorf, Ettenheim, Friesenheim, Kippenheim, Lahr, Nonnenweier, Orschweier and Rust. Schmieheim was the largest Jewish communities’ burial ground in South Baden.
- The cemetery contains a memorial, restored in 1998, in honour of the fallen Jewish soldiers of WW1.
- The mortuary was burnt to the ground in 1938 but remnants are still present in the cemetery. SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Alemannia Judaica.
12 May 2008.
KIRBERG: 65597 Hesse (Peters)
Two page report "De Jurrekerschhobb," visit to a Jewish cemetery situated between Dauborn und Kirberg; in German; Donors: Gerhard Heckelmann, 1991; Location at LBI : Gerhard Heckelmann collection; Storage-Location: Second floor, Accession Number(s): AR 6373.
KIRCHBERG: 55481 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KIRCHEN: 79588 Baden Württemberg (Peters, Zentralarchiv)
Der juedische Friedhof in Efringen-Kirchen; Unpublished documentation in the Office of Protection of Monuments 1992. Bearbeiterin: Barbara Doepp.
KIRCHHAIN: 35274 Hesse (Gerz, Peters).
Juden in Kirchhain; Geschichte der Gemeinde und ihres Friedhofs, mit einem Beitrag zur Biographie des juedischen Dichters Henle Kirchhan (1666-1757), by Kurt Schubert. Wiesbaden: Hessen Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden 1987 (Schriften der Kommission fuer die Gesch. der Juden in Hessen 9), ISBN 3-921434-10-6, 78 pp. [DIE DEUTSCHE NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIE/VLB] (DS135.G4 K577 1987) and at LBI / ID # DS 135 G4 K54 S3 135 gravestones; used from 1743-1939. Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.
KIRCHHARDT incorporating BERWANGEN: 74912 Baden-Württemberg.(Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Heilbronn.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Fürfelderweg. (Detail).
IN USE: From 1877 (oldest identified gravestone) until 1938 and 1973.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 101.
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German May 2008)LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Fürfelderweg. (Detail).
IN USE: From 1877 (oldest identified gravestone) until 1938 and 1973.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 101.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1992 basic cemetery documentation with these photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt Ed. Monika Preuß).
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic cemetery overview by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.#. 16.
- History by Angerbauer 1986, page 48.
- Prior to having their own cemetery in the mid-19th century, the Berwangen Jewish community used the cemeteries in Bad Rappenau-Heinsheim and Waibstadt.
- The cemetery contains a memorial listing the names of Jewish victims from Berwangen, during the Nazi era 1933/45.
- The last funeral to take place here was that of Elsa Gutmann neé Vollweiler in 1937, see Illustrated reminicences Abraham und Elsa Gutmann (1940-1967).
[14 May 2008]
KIRCHHEIM: 5350 North Rhine-Westphalia In der Mohweide. (Gerz, Peters).
see under EUSKIRCHEN, cemetery No. 6.
KIRCHHEIM/ECK: See Essing
KIRCHHEIM/WEINSTR.: 67281 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
A memorial was errected in 1947 on the site of the cemetery destroyed in 1928. Source: "Wo die totn Menschen schweigen da sprechen um so lauter die lebendigen Steine" by Bernhard Kukatzki in the book Juden in der Provinz.
KIRCHHEIMBOLANDEN: 67292 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
Owned and maintained by Rheinpfalz. Plat Nr. 3070. Size: 4,260 sq. meters; opened 1843. Source: Ernest B. Nathan with permission from Juedische Kultusgemeinde der Rheinpfalz. Source: "Wo die totn Menschen schweigen da sprechen um so lauter die lebendigen Steine" by Bernhard Kukatzki in the book Juden in der Provinz.
KIRF: 54441 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KIRN: 55606 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KIRRWEILER: 67489 Rhineland-Palatinate (also see Essing)
Gewann Neustadterweg; ab 1979 in christl. Privatbesik (Gerz, Peters). names: {10373} 550 sqm in size: renovated in 1975. Located at the north edge of the city, on Neustadter Way, but best reached on Jahnstrasse. 46 names were totally illegible Source: Bernhard Kukatzki, Laurentiusstrasse 28, 67 105 Schifferstadt, Germany Der juedische Friedhof in Kirrweiler by Bernhard Kukatzki; Begraebnisplatz fuer Kirrweiler, Maikammer und Diedesfeld. Laundau, 1995-34s See Essing for description of early history and names of those buried in Essing. Source: Bernhard Kukatzki, Laurentiusstrasse 28, 67 105 Schifferstadt, Germany Owned and maintained by Rheinpfalz. Plat Nr. 5762. Size: 623 sq. meters; opened 1869. Source: Ernest B. Nathan with permission from Juedische Kultusgemeinde der Rheinpfalz.
KIRSPENICH: 53879 Niederrhein (Peters) see Euskirchen
KIRTORF: 36320 Hesse (Gerz, Peters). http://www.judaica-vogelsberg.de/friedhoefe/index.html
KITZINGEN: 97318 Bavaria Unterfranken (Gerz, Peters).
Mention of the former large Jewish community, but no cemetery see Reodelsee. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.]. Judenfriedhoefe im Landkreis Kitzingen by Hans Bauer, in: Jahrbuch des Landkreises Kitzingen (1979) s. 60-79
KLEIN GERAU: 64521 Hesse see Gross Gerau
KLEIN-KARBEN: 61184 Hesse (Gerz, Peters). Now Karben
KLEIN-KROTZENNBURG: 63512 Hesse (Gerz, Peters).
28 gravestones; used from 1872-19357. Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.
KLEIN-REKEN: 48734 North Rhine-Westphalia Am Muehlenweg. (Gerz, Peters). See Reken
KLEINBARDORF: 97633 Bavaria
Jüdischer Verbandsfriedhof Kleinbardorf: (Jewish
Cemetery of the county Grabfeld in Kleinbardorf). Located in
Lower Frankonia, Bavaria, (30 km north of Kitzingen/River Main)
at Street Judenhugel (umlaut ue). Current town population: ca.
250. Current Jewish population: 0. Cemetery, in parts, was
destroyed in Holocaust.
- Caretaker with key is Erwin Hermann, Kleinbardorf.
Earliest known Jewish community in town dates from about the 17th century. The Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform cemetery was established in 1547, the first known grave. Other villages that used this unlandmarked, inactive cemetery were 27 including Kleinbardorf, Masbach, Bad Ko(oe)nigshofen, Sulzdorf, Trappstadt, Kleineibstadt, Grabfeld, Ostheim, Neustadt, and others. Last known Jewish burial was 1938, Jakob Fleischhacker from Kleinbardorf. No mass grave.
The isolated wood/forest at the crown of a hill has a sign in German. The cemetery is situated inside a former Celtic wall. History of cemetery and of Jews in Grabfeld county, burials, and photos of Kleinbardorf synagogue exist. Inscription above the 1696 preburial house: "This Tahara house was erected by our eminent rabbi Juspa from Neustadt from his own pocket, Tuesday Cheshwan 9, 1696.") Monument to First World War soldiers of Kleinbardorf (including Jewish victims) exists.
The cemetery is reached by turning directly off a public road and crossing public property: Street Judenhugel (Umlaut ue) in Kleinbardorf; main street in Kleinbardorf in the Bad Konigsho(oe)fen direction to the north. At the end of the village street is the sign "Judenhu(ue)gel" to the right and then about 2 km up very steep hill. Street ends directly in front of cemetery. Access is open to all via a continuous fence and a locking gate (which is open in daytime). Current size of cemetery (specify measurement unit): 210.050 sq m. The cemetery is divided into sections: older and newer parts. The tombstones date from 1547 through the 20th century. About 20,000 existed in 1933. In 1987, about 4,4000 remained in original location. About 15.600 were destroyed and vanished during Third Reich. 25%-50% of surviving granite, limestone, and sandstone markers are toppled or broken. They include rough stones or boulders, finely smoothed and inscribed stones, and double tombstones, some with iron decorations or lettering, bronze decorations or lettering other than metallic elements. Inscriptions are in Hebrew, Latin, German, (name, place, date). The pre-burial house has a tahara (table), wall inscriptions, a chimney, and a roof plated with big sandstone tiles. Probably the State of Bavaria owns the cemetery property now used for a cultural site. Frequent visitors include possibly organized Jewish groups/tours and organized individual tours and definitely private visitors. Passers by stop as the whole area is crossed by a hiking trail.
The cemetery was vandalized in 1925, during Third Reich, and in 1957 and 1977. Past maintenance includes patching and re-erecting stones, clearing vegetation, and restoration of Tahara house by Mr. Hermann, through a private arrangement. Mr. Hermann carried out restoration work over the past ten to twenty years. Current care is occasional clearing or cleaning by individuals and by authorities as well as a regular unpaid caretaker. Mr. Herrmann was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the German Bundesregierung in 1985. Vandalism and security are moderate threats. Weather erosion is a very serious threat. Vegetation is not a problem. Water drainage at the cemetery is good all year.
Christof Eberstadt completed the survey on August 16, 2003 using Israel Schwierz: Steinerne Zeugnisse des ju(ue)dischen Lebens in Bayern, 1992 Other documentation exists but was inaccessible. He visited on August 4, 2003. Formerly a regional cemetery, now well-tended, oldest tombstones from 1702. In 1933 there were 20,000 gravesites, in 1987 only 4400 tombstones remained. Vandalized in 1925, 1957, 1977. Memorial to dead of WW I. (Gerz, Peters).
KLEINERDLINGEN: 86720 Nördlingen
No visible evidence of cemetery. In the 17th-19th centuries burials were in Wallerstein - see that entry for details. There was a marble company headed by Marx Koppel that, at the end of the 19th century, also produced headstones for Jewish cemeteries. Source: Rolf Hofmann, Libanon Strasse 79, 70186 Stuttgart, Germany (Harburg Project)
- New cemetery, on Nähermemminger Weg.
COORDINATES: Lat 49.112221 Long 12.231397.
DISTRICT: Danube-Ries.
IN USE: from 1877 to 1986.
Source: http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/noerdlingen_friedhof.htm [October 2007]
KLEINHEUBACH: 63924 Bavaria (Gerz, Peters).
KLEINHEUBACH: 63924 Bavaria, Unterfranken near Miltenberg
Located 800 m. from carpark on Galgenberg. Fenced, with some very nice tombstones in the old section. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
KLEINSTEINACH: 97519 Bavaria. Also see Ebern (Gerz, Peters).
KLEINSTEINBACH: Bavaria, Unterfranken, near Hassberge
Well-tended cemetery, established in 1453, is 1.5 km SE of town. Oldest recognizable tombstone dates from 1596. Some renovated tombstones. Memorial to dead of WW I. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
KLEVE: 47533 North Rhine-Westphalia Koekoekstr. (Gerz, Peters).
KLOTTEN: 56818 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KOBERN-GONDORF: 56330 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KOBLENZ: 56073 Rhineland-Palatinate
Nine photographs of the Jewish cemetery in Koblenz; (and other things) in German; Donors: Harry Herman, 1986; Record compiled by: Herman, Harry; Location at LBI : Koblenz; Jewish community collection; Storage-Location: A 26/3 Accession Number(s): AR 5473, AR 7085. Cemetery has a synagogue, social hall, and memorial to the Jews of Koblenz. "I have two files on the cemetery. One is a listing of all the burials by last name and the other is a sketch of the cemetery. This information was from Elmer Ries, a retired teacher who is an expert on the concentration camp in Minsk. Last time I corresponded with him, he was getting a doctorate in Jewish studies." Source Janet Isenberg email: jbisenberg@erols.com [Aug 2001]
KOCHENDORF: 2330 Schleswig-Holstein Am Waldenberg. (Gerz, Peters).
KOCHENDORF: 74177 Baden-Württemberg: See BAD FRIEDRICHSHALL-KOCHENDORF.
KÖLN: 50829, 50935, 50823, 51145 North Rhine-Westphalia
Alternate spellings: Koeln, Cologne (English)
Pictures are available from Reinhold Kornhoff, Graf-von-Spee-Str. 19, 51429 Bergisch Gladbach. Source: Michael Kornhoff * Ot. Bocklemstein, Venloerstr. Bocklemund - Well-tended old and new sections located at end of trolley line to Bocklemund. Source: Wes Eichenwald * Ot. Deckstein, Decksteiner Str. * Ot. Ehrenfeld, Widdersdorfer Str. (Gerz, Peters). * Ot. Muelheim, Am Springborn {10959}
KOENEN: 54329 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KÖNIGHEIM (Koenigheim) incorporating GISSIGHEIM: 97953 Baden-Württemberg
DISTRICT: Main-Tauber-Kreis
SOURCE: Gerz and Peters
LOCATION OF CEMETERIES:
(Translated from German May 2008)SOURCE: Gerz and Peters
LOCATION OF CEMETERIES:
- 1. Königheim Bachhelle - (Detail).
IN USE: Dedicated 1875, oldest identified gravestone 1876, until 1935
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 66.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones with burial register by Zentralarchiv.
- 1991 basic cemetery documentation with the photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt ed. Barbara Döpp).
- Numerous individual gravestone photographs and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic overview of cemetery in Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.#. 111.
- Prior to 1875 the Königheim Jewish community used the cemetery in Külsheim for burials (Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, page 158).
- The cemetery contains a memorial in honour of the four Jewish soldiers from Königheim who lost their lives during WW1.
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones with burial register by Zentralarchiv.
- 2. Gissigheim Tannenweg - (Detail).
IN USE: From 1875. The identifiable date on the last gravestone is 1919. The last burial took place in 1927 (see Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, page 110). This brought the total to 14 gravestones.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 14.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones with burial register by Zentralarchiv.
- 1991 basic cemetery documentation with the photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt ed. Barbara Döpp). This documentation was combined with that for the basic Königheim cemetery documentation and can be located under Königheim.
- Numerous individual gravestone photographs and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Prior to 1875 the Königheim Jewish community used the cemetery in in Külsheim for burials (Hahn 1988 page 344).
- The cemetery contains a memorial in honour of the four Jewish soldiers from Königheim who lost their lives during WW1.
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones with burial register by Zentralarchiv.
[14 May 2008]
KOENIGS WUSTERHAUSEN: 15711 Brandenburg (Gerz, Peters).
KOENIGSBACH: Baden-Württemberg
Der juedische Friedhof in Koenigsbach-Stein. Unpublished documentation in the Office of Protection of Monuments 1994. Bearbeiterin: Monika Preuss. Source: http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/aj Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland. Bienenstr. 5, D-69117 Heidelberg, Tel. 06221 / 164-141, (Director: Dr. Peter Honigmann).
KÖNIGSBACH-STEIN (KOENIGSBACH-STEIN): 75203 Baden-Württemberg.(Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Enzkreis.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Königsbach-Stein at the end of Rhönstraße. (Detail).
IN USE: From 1872 (Sarah Tiefenbronner). Last burial 09 January 1940 (Amalie Stern née Schmalz).
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 134.
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German May 2008)LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Königsbach-Stein at the end of Rhönstraße. (Detail).
IN USE: From 1872 (Sarah Tiefenbronner). Last burial 09 January 1940 (Amalie Stern née Schmalz).
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 134.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1988 photographs of all gravestones with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1994 basic cemetery documentation with these photographs by the Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt ed. Monika Preuß).
- 1994/95 in Königsbach (Burial register, cemetery layout and photographs).
- Numerous photographs of gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic cemetery overview by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.# 112.
- Photographic cemetery overview by Theobald 1984, page 95.
- Burial register and cemetery layout in Königsbach 1998, Dust jacket and pages 70-74.
- Joachim Mehne: Jüdisches Königsbach. Einladung zu einem Rundgang. Haigerloch 2002.
- Until they acquired their own cemetery in 1872, this Jewish community used the burial ground in Obergrombach (Hahn 1988, page 167). Burial records were also kept in the local Death Registry.
- The acquisition of their own burial ground was made possible by Löw Stern, a merchant from Königsbach. His gravestone, in the middle of the cemetery, has been designated as being artistically and historically valuable.
- The cemetery was desecrated in June 1988, when 16 gravestones were toppled, some being broken. (Pforzheimer Zeitung 14 June 1988; basic cemetery documentation page 2).
- The cemetery contains a memorial in honour of the victims during the Nazi Era.
[15 May 2008]
KOENIGSBERG:
"In the former Koenigsberg, in Prussia there were at least three cemeteries. The one by the Lithuanian Wall now has been reconsecrated. Another, for which the architect Mendelsohn designed a new hall, is profaned as a Veterinary Institute. Nothing can be seen of the third, surely the oldest in the city. Soviet apartment blocs are on the site. I do not know if this cemetery had "disappeared" during the German occupation. I could make photographs." Source: Bernd Poller at arch-ing@f-i-plan.de who communicates in German. [January 2002]
Zum 50 jaehrigen Bestehen des israelitischen Begraebnisplatzes vor dem Koenigstore, 1875-1925. Aus den Akten der Synagogengemeinde/ veroeffentlicht von Josef Rosenthal. Koenigsberg i. Pr. Druck: E. Masuhr, 1925. vii, 28 p. 3 plates, tables. 24 cm. Author's autographed presentation copy to Rabb. Dr. Torles. ID # GT 3250 K6 R6 and x MfW W262 Source: LBI 205. III 37 Koenigsberg i.P., election list, contributors list, accounts (Kassenverzeichnis), including the Burial Society, 1800-1801, handwritten, German and Hebrew.
Source: LBI Cemetery list. Source: LBI
KOENIGSFELD: 53426 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KOENIGSHOVEN: (now Bedburg 50181 North Rhine-Westphalia) used cemetery at Bedburg
- NEW cemetery: 50181 Bedburg, North-Rhine-Westphalia, District
of Erft
ADRESS: Koelner Strasse, Am Sandberg, formerly "Im Kamp an der Landgrube"
COORDINATES: Latitude 51.01437 / Longitude 6.55657.
IN USE: prior to 1832 until 1939, acquired 1837
GRAVESTONES: 66
DOCUMENTATION:- 1972 by Klaus H. S. Schulte (Register of
graves)
- 1991 - 1993 by Dieter Peters (Register of graves)
- 1994 by Dieter Peters (4 photos: gravestones and views of
cemetery)
- 1980 - 1985, 1990 - 1998 by Gerd Friedt (complete documentation)
- History, Register of graves by Schulte 1972, pages 24, 275-276.
History by Pracht 1997, page 165. - Complete documentation by Friedt 1998a, pages 10 - 79
- 1972 by Klaus H. S. Schulte (Register of
graves)
- OLD cemetery: 50181 Bedburg, North-Rhine-Westphalia, District
of Erft
ADRESS: Johannisstrasse 2, formerly "In den Gaerten"
COORDINATES: Latitude: 50.997391 / Longitude: 6.57869
IN USE: From 18th to 19th century, acquired 1839.
GRAVESTONES: none
DOUMENTATION: none
PUBLICATION:
- History by Schulte 1972, page 24
- History by Pracht 1997, page 165.
- History by Friedt 1998a, page 8 - 10.
SOURCE: http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/aj/FRIEDHOF/NRW/PROJEKTE/fk-nr.htm
KOENIGSWINTER: 53639 North Rhine-Westphalia Rheinallee/Ecke Clemensstr. (Gerz, Peters).
KOERBECKE: 4773 North Rhine-Westphalia ueber Soest, Berlingsenstr. (Gerz, Peters).
KOERBECKE: 3532 Hesse Am Heideberg und der Muehle (Gerz, Peters).
KOERDORF: 56370 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KOESLIN: 211. III 41 Koeslin, cemetery register, photocopy, German. Source: LBI ; Cemetery list. Source: LBI
KOETHEN, ANHALT: 06366 Saxony-Anhalt Neben kommunalem Fr. (Gerz, Peters).
KOMMERN: 53894 North Rhine-Westphalia Ot. Hackenthal. (Gerz, Peters).
KONIGSTADTEN: see Gross Gerau
KONSTANZ: 78467 Baden-Württemberg. (Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Konstanz.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Wollmatinger Straße (part of the City cemetery) (Detail).
IN USE:
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German May 2008)
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Wollmatinger Straße (part of the City cemetery) (Detail).
IN USE:
- Oldest part 1870-1945; newer section 1932-1984; current part from 1981 - in use.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1989 photographs of all gravestones with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1994 basic cemetery documentation including these photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt,ed. Monika Preuß).
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic cemetery overview by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.# 113.
- History and burial register in Bloch 1971 pages 28-29 and 245-247.
- Photographic cemetery overview by Theobald 1984, page 95.
- History and burial register (copied from above 1994 basic cemetery documentation by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt) in Stein 2007).
- The Konstanz Jewish community initially used the cemeteries in Gailingen or Randegg during the 19th century until 1869, until they acquired their own burial section within the City's general cemetery in the Wollmatinger Straße. The area was extended twice, in 1931 and again in 1981, by including adjoining sections. It is still in use for burials.
- This cemetery was not destroyed during the Nazi era.
- The cemetery contains a memorial dedicated to the destruction of the Konstanz synagogue during the Nazi era. There is also a gravestone in memory of one named Jewish soldier who fell during WW1.
KONZ: 54329 Rhineland-Palatinate 1) and 2) Ot. Oberemmel; (Gerz, Peters).
KORBACH: 34497 Hesse (Gerz, Peters).
KORDEL: 54306 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KORNELIMUENSTER: 52076 North Rhine-Westphalia Kirchbergstr.; (Gerz, Peters).
KORSCHENBROICH: 41352 North Rhine-Westphalia
I; II, am Bertzeg II, im Knickelsdorf, Donatusstr.; (Gerz, Peters).
KRAIBURG: am Inn, 84559 Bavaria
Although no traces remain of the Jewish Community that existed until 1338, there is a memorial to the 242 innocent victims of Nazism.
KRAICHTAL incorporating OBERÖWISHEIM (Oberoewisheim) and NEUENBÜRG (Neuenbuerg) 76703 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Karlsruhe.
LOCATION OF 2 CEMETERIES: 1. Flur Reimenhälden and 2. Neuenbürg
(Translated from German May 2008).LOCATION OF 2 CEMETERIES: 1. Flur Reimenhälden and 2. Neuenbürg
- 1. Oberöwisheim (Detail - bottom left arrow) Flur Reimenhälden
IN USE: Dedicated in 1629 until 1938 (last burial).
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 492. Oldest identifiable gravestone date 1735.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1988 translation of gravestone inscriptions from these photographs and burial register by Zentralarchiv, ed.: Karol Sidon).
- Alphabetical burial register by Zentralarchiv.
- Numerous individual gravestone and general cemetery photographs by Alemannia Judaica.
- History by Zumbach 1929.
- Photographic overview by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.#. 164.
- History and burial register by Zumbach/Walter 1973.
- History Page 79, photographic overview page 100 by Theobald 1984.
- History by Theobald 1985 (7).
- History by Hahn 1985b, pages. 160-161.
- History by Beisel 2002, page 99.
- Although no Jews are said to have actually ever lived in Oberöwisheim, this is the place where the Jewish communities in the KREICHGAU area maintained their communal burial ground. Prior to the existence of this cemetery burials took place from 1435 onwards initially in Speyer and thereafter, following their expulsion from there, in Worms.
- This cemetery was still used after 1933 and until 1938 by the Jewish communities of Menzingen, Münzesheim and Odenheim.
- Signs of wanton desecration of this cemetery in the spring of 2003 by a number of youths were still evident six months later. See photographs in Alemannia Judaica.
- 2. Neuenbürg (Detail - top right). Section of general local cemetery.
IN USE: only in 1945.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 7. This is the graveyard of the Jewish concentration camp detainees who returned after liberation to Neuenbürg and died there.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1988 photographs of all gravestones with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1993 basic cemetery documentation including these photographs by the Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt ed. Monika Preuß).
- Photographs of all as well as four individual gravestones in Alemannia Judaica.
- History in Neuenbürg 1959.
- Photographic cemetery overview by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.# 165.
- History by Theobald 1985 (5).
- In 1945 French liberation troops took more than 500, mostly Jewish Polish, liberated detainees suffering from typhoid from the Vaihingen an der Enz concentration camp to Neuenbürg for convalescence. Seven Jewish victims died there and were buried in a special area separated by a low wooden lattice fence as part of the general local cemetery (Theobald 1985 (5)).
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KRAKOW AM SEE: 18292 Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Gerz, Peters).
KRAKOW AM SEE: 18292 Mecklenburg-Schwerin
There were 56 Jews in 19 families in 1819. A burial place was set aside in part of the new cemetery on Plauener Chaussee in 1821. In 1900, there were 43 Jews including 9 children. The last tombstone was set got Tods Grlfmsnn in 1937. The cemetery was not disturbed during the Holocaust. The city has been taking care of the cemetery since 1945. Source: Max-Samuel-Haue, Schillerplatz 10, 18055 Rostock; and Kulturverein Alte synagoge Krakow am See E. V. Schulplatz 1 18292 Krakow am See; material submitted by Peter Lande.
KRASKAU: David-Loewkowitz, Manfred; David-Loewkowitz, Rose: Der juedische Friedhof in Kraskau (Grasenau).-In: Mitteflungen des Verbandes ehemaliger Breslauer und Schlesier in Israel (1972), Nr. 31, S. 11
KRAUTHEIM, JAGST: 74238 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Hohenlohekreis.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Im Zücker on the old Neunstetter Weg. (Detail).
IN USE: Dedicated 1837 until 1940.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 117.
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German May 2008)LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Im Zücker on the old Neunstetter Weg. (Detail).
IN USE: Dedicated 1837 until 1940.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 117.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1985 photographs of all gravestones and cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- Full cemetery documentation completed by Naftali Bar-Giora Bamberger, in Memor-Buch. Die jüdischen Friedhöfe im Hohenlohekreis published in 2002 after his death by Landratsamt Hohenzollern, 2002 two volumes, 1104 pages. (Documentation of all cemeteries and gravestones in Berlichingen, Hohebach, Krautheim, Laibach, and Öhringen).
- Numerous recent and historic photographs of individual graves as well as general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Eva Maria Kraiss/Marion Reuter: Bet Hachajim. Haus des Lebens. Jüdische Friedhofe in Württembergisch Franken. Künzelsau 2003, with excellent photographs, ISBN 3-89929-009-7 (LBI}.
- History page 169, photographic cemetery overview, photographs of a single gravestone figs.#119 and 120 in Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968.
- History by Bauer 1982.
- Full cemetery documentation by Bamberger 2002, pages 957-1024.
- Prior to having their own cemetery in 1837, the Jewish community of Krautheim used the cemetery in Berlichingen (Hahn 1988, page 260).
- This cemetery was also used by the Jewish communities of Berlichingen , Neunstetten and Ballenberg after 1837 (Hahn 1988, page 260).
[20 May 2008]
KRAUTHEIM-LAIBACH: see Hohenlohekreis, above
KRAUTOSTHEIM: 91484 Bavaria (now Sugenheim) (Gerz, Peters).
91484 Krautostheim part of Ullstadt-Sugenheim, Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Middle Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.
- CEMETERY LOCATION: south-east of Ullstadt, about 400 meters
south of the road Ullstadt-Langenfeld, bordering a wooded
hill.
CORDINATES: Latitude: 49.57769 / Longitude: 10.384925
HISTORY: The cemetery in Ullstadt was created in the 17th century serving the Jewish communities of Burgambach, Burghaslach, Diespeck (until 1811), Dottenheim, Kaubenheim, Neustadt on the river Aisch (until 1811), Pahres, Scheinfeld, Schnodsenbach, Schornweissach, Sugenheim (documented since 1620)until some of these communities had acquired their own cemeteries. The oldest gravestone is dated 1627 (Salman ben Abraham, died 1. Februar 1627). The cemetery was substantially enlarged in 1838 and since covers an area of 1.564 acres. The cemetery is enclosed by a 1,20 meter high natural stone wall at the back of which is a wooden fence. The large funeral house is still in place at the cemetery entrance.
[translated from German October 2007]
KREFELD: 47805, 45839 North Rhine-Westphalia
1) I, Heideckstr. 2) II, Alte Gladbacher Str. 3) Ot. Huels, am Strathhof 4) Ot. Linn, Kreuzweg; (Gerz, Peters). Steinerne Zeugen; juedische Grabstaetten in Krefeld, by Michael Brocke. Krefeld: Stadtarchiv 1991, 47 pp. Bibliography: p. 47. ID # q NB 1870 S84 Source: LBI ; Location at LBI : Arthur Bluhm collection; Storage-Location: V 7/5 Donors: Hannah Bluhm, 1962.; Period covered (or date of publication): 1809-1962; Accession Number(s): AR 1884-1888. 4. IV Jewish Community Krefeld: 1914-1938 includes photos, fliers by Jewish organizations in Krefeld, report on Jewish cemetery, photo of destroyed synagogue in 1938. (31 items) indexed: Source: Professor Dr. Michael Brocke, Freie Universitat Berlin, Fachbereich, Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften II, Insitute fuer Judaistik (WE 1), Schwendenerstr. 27, 14195 Berlin
KREMMEN: 16766 Brandenburg (Gerz, Peters).
KREUZAU: 52372 North Rhine-Westphalia Drovestr.; (Gerz, Peters).
KREUZAU: 52372 North Rhine-Westphalia Wirtschaftsweg; (Gerz, Peters).
KREUZTAL: 57223 North Rhine-Westphalia Ot. Burgholdinghausen; (Gerz, Peters).
KRIEGSHABER: 86156 Bavaria (Gerz, Peters).
Hummelstr. 80; Augsburg, Bavaria at the corner of Hooverstrasse and Madisonstrasse. There is a newer Augsburg Jewish cemetery located in the Ansteten district.
The Kriegshaber cemetery is about 400 feet wide by 300 feet deep. It is surrounded by a five foot high cement wall topped by barbed wire. On all sides of it are apartment houses called Centerville, used by families of American servicemen stationed at the nearby Kriegshaber American military installation. In the middle of the cemetery is a house constructed in 1802 in which the German-speaking caretaker (Peter Felber) lives. The cemetery is divided into four quadrants. The one record book in the possession of the caretaker covers only the front right quadrant (as seen from the entrance gate)(used from 1867 to about 1910) and the graves are in chronological order. The front left quadrant has only grass and a small vegetable patch. The tombstones in the left rear quadrant are not as well ordered and cover the period from about 1800 to about 1870. The inscriptions are in Hebrew, German or a combination. The rear right quadrant continuing behind the house has older tombstones with only Hebrew inscriptions. Overall the cemetery is in good condition, considering age and events, but many of the stones are illegible or crumbling. Some tombstones have been repaired or restored.
Until the early nineteenth century, Jews could neither live or be buried within the Augsburg city limits. The Jews who lived in what were then the suburbs of Kriegshaber, Pfersee and Steppach were all buried in the Kriegshaber cemetery. The cemetery was founded in 1636 ( perhaps actually 1627) and has a very interesting history as described in Stadtanzeiger, the weekly supplement to the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper dated Tuesday, September 25, 1973.
I have a copy and an English translation of the Stadtanzeiger article and some related articles about the Kriegshaber synagogue. Furthermore, I have a listing of the locations of about 90 graves in the newer part of the cemetery. Source: Arthur Obermayer, 239 Chestnut Street, West Newton, MA 02165; Fax (617) 244-2496; Tel (617)244-2398.
Publications:- Bernstein, Mordechai: Seltsamkeiten auf dem Friedhof von Kriegshaber. - In: Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland (1950-12-22),
- S.4 Lamm, Louis: Die juedischen Friedhoefe in Kriegshaber, Buttenwiesen und Binswangen: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Juden in der ehemaligen Markgrafschaft Burgau.-Berlin: Lainre, 1912.-40 S. (Zur Geschichte d. Juden im bayerischen Schwaben ;1)
KROEPELIN: 18236 Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Gerz, Peters).
KROEV: 54536 Rhineland-Palatinate (Gerz, Peters).
KRONACH: 96317 Bavaria, Oberfranken A memorial in the Christian cemetery recalls the former Jewish community.
KRONBERG IM TAUNUS: 61476 Hesse (Gerz, Peters).
KROPPENSTEDT: 39397 Saxony-Anhalt Gedenkstein f.ehem.Fr.linksin Richtung Halberstadt; (Gerz, Peters).
KROTOSCHIN:
212. III 41a Krotoschin, death records from the Burial Society, 1785, photocopy, Hebrew. 214. VIII 54a Krotoschin (probably), death register, 1786-1831, microfilm, Hebrew. Source: LBI Cemetery list. Source: LBI Grotte, Alfred: Alte Judenfriedhoefe, insbesondere der Judenfriedhof in Krotoschin.-Unter Mitarb. von: Colan, Gustav.-In: Die Denknalpflege 21 (1919), Nr. 2, S. 60-64
KRUDENBURG: 46569 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz, Peters).
KRUFT: 56642 Rhineland-Palatinate
1) An der Bundesstr. 2) Krufter Wald, Roter Berg; (Gerz, Peters).
KRUMBACH: 86381 Bavaria (Gerz, Peters).
KRUMBACH & HÜRBEN: Baden-Württemberg
Listing by row (18 rows, about 300 names) of those whose tombstones were legible. [Many noted as not legible] contact Rosanne Leeson, leeson1@attglobal.net . Huerben today is part of Krumbach.
KUCHENHEIM: 53881 North Rhine-Westphalia Am Judenkirchhof; (Gerz, Peters).
Bondy, Dan: Der jueidische Friedhof zu Kuchenheim.-In: Cuchenheim 1084-1984. Bd. 2.-Euskirchen, 1984, S. 433-446
see under EUSKIRCHEN, cemetery No. 7.
KÜLSHEIM, BADEN (Kuelsheim): 97900 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters).
DISTRICT: Main-Tauber-Kreis.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Near junction Steinbacher Weg and Hans-Weisbach-Straße.(Detail).
IN USE: Probably from around the mid-17th century until 1938.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 921. Oldest identifiable gravestone dated 1695. (John 1992, page 145).
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German May 2008)LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Near junction Steinbacher Weg and Hans-Weisbach-Straße.(Detail).
IN USE: Probably from around the mid-17th century until 1938.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 921. Oldest identifiable gravestone dated 1695. (John 1992, page 145).
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1985 photographs of all gravestones with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1999/200 cemetery documentation including above photographs by the Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt ed. Michael Thon).
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic overview of cemetery by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig. #122.
- Photographic overview of cemetery by Theobald 1984, page 95.
- History by John 1992.
- Existing literature offers various dates for the existence of this cemetery. The first reference to this burial ground stems from 1658. Statements that the cemetery existed already in 1600 and possibly as early as during the Middle Ages remain unsupported (Hahn 1988, page 346).
- The Külsheim cemetery, surrounded by a fence and an iron gate, also served the associated Jewish communities of Gissigheim, Königheim, Tauberbischofsheim, Hochhausen and Hardheim. From 1875 onwards burials in this cemetery became restricted to the Külsheim community in view of lack of space. This meant that the other communities in the area were obliged to acquire their own local burial grounds.
- Some information on the cemetery can be obtained from the Landesdenkmalamt of Baden-Württemberg (in Stuttgart), and help in accessing the cemetery can be provided by the local genealogist in Hardheim, Gerhard Wanitschek (Mozartstrasse 23, D-74736 Hardheim, Germany; tel: 011-49-6283-6646; fax: 011-49-6283-21101). A key to open the cemetery gate is available from the Town Hall (Rathaus) in Külsheim. Source: Arthur Obermayer; obermayer@alum.mit.edu
[28 May 2008]
KUEPS: 96328 Bavaria Oberfranken, near Kronach (Gerz, Peters).
A memorial but no remains of the Jewish cemetery established 1597 but not used after 1835. Stones were recycled. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
KUPPENHEIM: 76456 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters)
DISTRICT: Rastatt
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: at the Stadtwaldstraße (Detail).
IN USE:
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German June 2008)LOCATION OF CEMETERY: at the Stadtwaldstraße (Detail).
IN USE:
- From the end of the 17th century until 1938 and again in 1983. First mentioned in records in 1694 (see Linder 1999, page 57).
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987/1988 photographs of all gravestones with mapping of graves by Zentralarchiv.
- 2004 photographs of selected gravestones by Johann Deiters.
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Gerhard Friedrich Linder: Die jüdische Gemeinde in Kuppenheim, pub. by Stadt Kuppenheim. 144 pages with about 40 (partially coloured) photographs and a CD-ROM.
- History by Rosenthal 1927, page 195.
- Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968: history page 173; photographic overall view fig.#124.
- Theobald 1984: history page 79; photographic overall view page 96.
- History and complete documentation of eleven chosen gravestones by Deiters 2005.
- Records of burials have been kept since 1692 (Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, page 173).
- This cemetery was also used from time to time by the Jewish communities of Baden-Baden, Bodersweier, Bühl, Kehl, Lichtenau, (Neu-)Freistett, Muggensturm, Rastatt, Rheinbischofsheim and Stollhofen; and up to the 20th century particularly by the communities of Ettlingen, Gernsbach, Hörden and Malsch.
- A mortuary, built in 1889 was destroyed in 1938. There is also a record of this cemetery having been repeatedly desecrated in November 1897, when several gravestones were toppled and damaged. Although a reward was offered to bring the culprits to justice, those responsible were not caught.
- The cemetery contains a memorial plaque in honour of the Jewish Dead of WW1.
[21 June 2008]
KURHESSEN: Cemetery list. Source: LBI
KUSTERDINGEN incorporating WANKHEIM 72127 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters).
DISTRICT: Tübingen (Tuebingen).
LOCATION OF CEMETERY:
IN USE: From 1744 until 1941 (oldest gravestone 1788/1789).
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 137.
DOCUMENTATION:
LOCATION OF CEMETERY:
IN USE: From 1744 until 1941 (oldest gravestone 1788/1789).
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 137.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1988 to 1994 complete cemetery documentation by Frowald Gil Hüttenmeister.
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic overall view of cemetery by Württemberg 1932, page 132.
- Complete cemetery documentation by Wankheim 1995.
- The Wankheim cemetery came into existence in 1774 when 4 or 5 Jewish families initially rented a piece of land at an annual rental of 3 Gulden to create a cemetery.After long drawn-out negotiations the cemetery was eventually acquired by the community of Wankheim in 1848. The cemetery area was enlarged in 1900 because, up to 1933, it was also used for burials by the Jewish communities of Tübingen and Reutlingen.
- There is a memorial plaque in the cemetery remembering the 14 members of the Tübingen Jewish community who lost their lives during the 1933/1945 Nazi era.
- The cemetery was severely damaged in October 1939, when 65 gravestones were toppled (Wankheim 1995, page 27). In 1943 the cemetery became the