Jewish cemetery Arnstadt

A brick wall forms the demarcation between the main cemetery and the Jewish cemetery. Already the medieval Jewish community had a cemetery, which is mentioned between 1428 and 1521. It was located in the direction of Holzhausen on Ichtershäuser Straße. Traces of this cemetery have not been preserved. Until 1921 the dead of the Jewish community were buried in Plaue or in other places (especially in home towns of the deceased). The land for the establishment of a Jewish cemetery in Arnstadt was acquired by the Jewish community in 1912. The first burials took place in 1924 (Hedwig Stern née Liebenthal and Herz Herzberg, both died in March 1924), the last burial was in autumn 1939 (Hermann Stern). A total of 24 gravestones (including two memorial stones) are preserved. The cemetery area covers 3.75 ar. There is a memorial stone for the Jews of the town who perished during the Nazi period. In the Jewish part of the cemetery on Parkweg there is a memorial stone donated by the Jewish Community of Thuringia with the inscription: "To the memory of the Jewish citizens who were victims of fascist tyranny". In the New Cemetery there is a symbolic gravestone in memory of the Jewish banker family Hirschmann, who converted to Christianity. The inscription states that the couple Siegmund and Eugenie Hirschmann died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in March 1943. In 1945, their son Walter was murdered in the Auschwitz death camp.