Jewish cemetery

For the year 1758, a Jewish burial society - a Chewra Kaddischa -  is verifiable. The site of the cemetery was at the Kaiplatz. Because this was occupied, the cemetery preserved to this day was built on May 30. May 1826 on the Rö&April;eberg - a small hill between the Bernburg valley town and today's Waldau district - was inaugurated by Duke Alexius of Anhalt-Bernburg (1767-1834)  Duke Alexius is also referred to in the inscription above the archway: "Gottesacker/Erbauet unter der glorreichen Regierung Sr. His Serene Highness Alexius Friedrich Christian by the local Israelite community in 1826/ On the path of virtue is life, its path leads straight to immortality.Wisdom of Solomon 12, 28/ In the year "5586 (=1826) after the small counting". Solomon's saying is enclosed in Hebrew and German. At this time more than two hundred Jewish men, women and children are resident in Bernburg. Their number remains constant until 1933. In the Jüdische cemetery at the Rößeberg more than 400 gravestones have survived on a site of 2,800 m². In the center of the cemetery is the tomb of the first and only Anhalt-Bernburg state rabbi Dr. Salomon Herxheimer (1801-1884). To the left of the mächtigen gate is the celebration hall. A simple late classicist hall building, the interior of which is open to the roof truss. The last burial took place in 1954. Towards the end of the GDR, the cemetery was in poor condition. Many gravestones were lying on the ground, also as a result of vandalism. The mourning hall was dilapidated. Since 1998, the Jüdische Geschichte in Bernburg (Jüdische Geschichte in Bernburg) has been taking care of the cemetery in coordination with the Landesverband Jüdischer Gemeinden Sachsen-Anhalt. In 2004, an international youth camp repaired much of the cemetery. The cemetery is always on Memorial Day öffentlich zugänglich.