Old Jewish cemetery Berliner Strasse (Leipzig)

The oldest cemetery, which no longer exists today, was founded in 1814 south of the present city center in Johannistal. He is today built over by clinics of the University of Leipzig. This cemetery existed until 1864 and was dissolved in 1936 by order of the municipality. The bones and some of the gravestones were moved to the cemetery on Delitzscher Straße.

From 1864, the "Old Jewish Cemetery" was established on Berliner Strasse. It was used until 1928 and has eight burial fields with a section of children's graves, but also large monumental stones and burial houses. A meadow in the left part of the cemetery was used as a -prohibited- playground for Jewish Leipzig children until 1944, as they were forbidden to use public playgrounds.

The cemetery was desecrated during the Nazi era, many gravestones were destroyed and stolen. The gravestones that no longer exist are commemorated, as far as one could still determine the location of the graves, by small bronze cubes with the names of the deceased.