Jewish cemetery Chomutov / Komotau

The Jewish cemetery in Chomutov is located in the southern part of the town of Chomutov, near Beethovenova Street. It was founded in 1892 (until then the community used the Jewish cemetery in Údlice) and covered a total area of 3,000 square meters.

In the past there was a Tahara house (built in the historicist style) and a cemetery caretaker's house. Today there is a company parking lot on this site. As part of "Aktion Z" (an ordered and uncompensated work performance by the population during the period of real socialist rule in Czechoslovakia), the two dilapidated buildings were demolished in 1986 and 1987 respectively, the Jewish gravestones were removed, the cemetery was filled with topsoil and converted into a memorial park. This conversion deprived the cemetery of its cultural and religious significance and ultimately left it as an empty tableau. The cemetery was opened in 1987.

Due to the increased concentration of sociopathological phenomena (from 1989, drug users increasingly used the cemetery), the park was closed to the public.

It was ceremoniously reopened in 2008 and includes a small stone memorial plaque, a Star of David made of granite stones and a sculpture made of demolition stones in memory of the former Jewish community of Chomutov.