Jewish cemetery (Gailingen am Hochrhein)

The six Jewish families admitted with a letter of protection from 1657 were able to establish a cemetery below the "Bürglischloss" (Genterweg) a few years after their admission. The cemetery soon became the central Jewish cemetery for the Jewish families living in the Hegau. Thus the deceased Jews from Randegg (until 1746), Wangen (until 1826) and Worblingen (until 1857/58) as well as partly from Donaueschingen and other places were buried there. The cemetery plot belonged to the local government. Until 1830, the Jewish community had to pay the landlord of Gailingen an annual "burial fee" of four gulden. In the 19th century, the cemetery became the property of the Jewish community.   
  
The cemetery was subsequently expanded several times (for the first time in 1765) and eventually covered an area of 157.74 a. Maintenance of the cemetery and burial of the dead was provided by members of the burial brotherhood (Chewra Kadisha) founded in 1676.  
  
In the cemetery today there is still the Cemetery Hall (Tahara House) with the memorial plaques for the 16 Jewish fallen of the First World War, which were saved from the synagogue in 1938, attached to the outer wall and a memorial established in 1948 for the Jews from Gailingen who perished as a result of the deportations. The two memorial plaques for the fallen were moved to the Jewish Museum in the Bürgerhaus in Gailingen in the fall of 2012 after an extensive cleanup and after the names and dates were tracked. Since then, replicas of these plaques can be found on the wall of the Tahara House.