Jewish cemetery Görlitz

The cemetery is located in the Südstadt at the end of Biesnitzer Stra;e, at the height of the streetcar stop „Büchtemannstraße“.

The cemetery is geöffnet: Sunday to Thursday: 7-18 clock, Friday 7-14 clock.

Within the historic cemetery walls of the cemetery established in 1849, the occupied main section (with about 570 graäbers) is enclosed by a wire mesh fence that separates it from the old cemetery hall. Seen from the entrance right back, in the southern corner, there is a memorial stone über mass graves for the more than 300 victims of the neighboring concentration camp Biesnitzer Grund.

Particularly in the central area, between the entrance and the cemetery hall, several grave monuments testify to the great prosperity of those buried there. The cemetery in Gülitz differs from other Jewish cemeteries in Saxony today by its imposing gravestones, which are almost reminiscent of crypts. There are no gravestones left from the time when the cemetery was founded. But the 1860s transformation into a large park cemetery is well recognizable.

The Jüdische Friedhof in the Görlitz Süd city has the NS time üüberdauern, he is today an impressive monument and place of memories. Many outstanding personalities of the city history and even more pioneers of the Gründerzeit are buried here. Not to forget the fates of those persecuted and murdered by the Nazis.

After 1945, there were still isolated burials here.