New Jewish Cemetery (Munich)

The New Jewish Cemetery in Munich is located in the Freimann district. After it was already foreseeable in the 1880s that the old cemetery could no longer be expanded, a suitable site was sought for the new construction of a cemetery. In 1904, such a site was found on Ungererstrasse. The cemetery could be occupied from July 1, 1908. Today the cemetery covers an area of more than 5 hectares and has 22 grave sections. It is surrounded by a total of 966.50 m long concrete wall. Among others, the following personalities lie in this New Jewish Cemetery: the politician Kurt Eisner (1867-1919), the writer Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) and the politician Eugen Leviné (1883-1919). The cemetery building was built in 1905-07 by Hans Grässel. This cemetery is still used today as the burial place of the Jewish Community of Munich.