Cemetery

Chodová Planá/Kuttenplan is a small village approx. 8 km südlich Mariánskě Lázné/Marienbad

When in 1686 the Jews were expelled from Planá/Plan, some families found refuge in neighboring Kuttenplan, where Jews must already have been residentäsig, since the first mention of a synagogue there dates from 1645.

Around the middle of the 18th century, more than 20 Jewish families are said to have lived in Kuttenplan, and around 1750 they replaced the old synagogue with a new building. Around 1770 their number had grown to more than 30 families.

closed cemetery - protected as a monument

"According to the calculations of the Łabędzki family from 1898, there are 778 gravestones or their fragments in the necropolis" (see: Małgorzata Frąckowiak)

extensive gravestone stock (German and/or Hebrew inscriptions). "On an area of 0.3 hectares are preserved only about 150 tombstones, the älteste dates from 1840 and belongs to Margaliot Schnitzer, Großmother of Emin Pasha." (see: Opolskie-Nieruchomosci.pl)

In 1873 [!] the Jewish community of Meiningen was able to create its own burial ground on the north side of today's municipal cemetery. The first burial was in 1889. The cemetery area covers about 25,00 ares. There are about 130 gravestones in total. Among the buried are also some of the former land rabbis of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen. More recent graves of the 20th century are located in the upper part of the cemetery. The last burial was in 1944.(Alemannia Judaica)

The Jewish cemetery Essentho is located away from the village on the Fürstenberger Stra&szlig. It was used from 1830 to 1937. Jews from Essentho, but also from the surrounding communities were buried.

In the working-class district of Segeroth in Essen, the Jewish cemetery was opened in 1885 as part of the Essen municipal cemetery. Burials were still held here until 1991. There are still about 700 gravestones today.

The cemetery on Schulzstrasse is part of the Essen Park Cemetery in the district of Huttrop. It was founded in 1931 and is used until today by the Jewish community.

On the cemetery is a stele in memory of the victims of the Nazi era. 

About 30 stones from the old cemetery on Lazarettstrasse are on this cemetery.

The cemetery at the Lanterstrasse is located in the district Huttrop. He was first occupied in 1766 and closed in 1855. There are still 2 tombstones and a memorial stele preserved today. 

The exact location of the cemetery can no longer be determined today.

In 1922, the cemetery on Wassenbergstrasse was fully occupied, the following burials took place on the new burial ground. It is located in the municipal cemetery on Mühlenweg.

Füfor the last dead in this cemetery, no more gravestones were allowed to be erected. Henriette Levi and Eugen Mehler killed themselves to avoid being deported to a concentration camp. Since 1988, a memorial stone commemorates these two dead.