Jewish cemetery (Plaue)

The Jewish cemetery in Plaue in the Ilm district was established in 1826 on a hillside plot between the Ehrenburg and the local Christian cemetery. The cemetery was the burial place for the Jews from Plaue. In addition, Jews who died in Arnstadt and Ilmenau were also buried in Plaue until the 1920s. The number of Jews in the above-mentioned places was always small, so that only about 30 burials took place in the cemetery. Today, about 25 gravestones (mazewot) from the 19th and early 20th century are still preserved.