Cemetery

The first Jewish cemetery of Basel was established at the beginning of the 13th century. The cemetery was located in front of the city. The graves were found during construction work in the forties and moved to the new cemetery.

 The second Jewish cemetery was located in the city, but was used only briefly, as the Jews were expelled from the city in e1397.

When a new Jewish community was founded in 1805, the dead were first buried in Hegenheim in France.

Location:

Coming from the direction of Hoym, one reaches a small driveway to the right immediately before the place name sign "Ballenstedt". About it one reaches the entrance of the cemetery.

The large area, enclosed by a wall, is empty except for a memorial stone erected in its center. The preserved about 15 gravestones were placed along the right outer wall (seen from the gate). Four memorial plaques are placed at its near-gate end.

The gate is locked, a plaque placed there indicates that a key is available at the town hall, room 11.

The cemetery is located in the western outskirts of Bad Neustadt at the lower end of Mozartstraße. One approaches him from the south, where also the entrance is. From the gate a small chestnut avenue measures through the area, which rises steeply to the north. The graves in the almost square field are oriented to the east. Only the western part is occupied, the eastern half has remained empty. The side with the entrance gate is protected by a wall, on the other three sides there is wire mesh fence.

The first medieval cemetery was located in the lower Sandstrasse. He was created in the 14th century and cleared in the late 15th century. During reconstruction work on a house some years ago old gravestones, which were used as floor slabs, are said to have been found.

From 1556 to 1851, the Jews in Bamberg had no cemetery of their own. They had to bury their dead first in Zeckendorf, from the middle of the 17th century in Walsdorf.

The new Jewish cemetery of Bad Bentheim was first used in 1874. It is located in the city at the Hilgenstiege. There are still 45 gravestones preserved.

The old Jewish cemetery was probably established in the middle of the 17th century on the Osterberg, near the current open-air stage. A very contemplative and almost romantic place.

The cemetery was used (according to Wikipedia) from 1754 nis 1902 and has - after extensions in the 19th century - an area of 602 m2.

Eight gravestones from the period between about 1820 and 1870, mossy mounds indicate another about 21 graves. The preserved grave signs are artistically as well as from the material quality above average.

Apparently the cemetery was vandalized some years ago: 3 of the 8 stelae show traces of professional repair.

Small stones on some gravestones testify that these graves are visited.

About 220 gravestones are preserved in the cemetery, inscriptions from about 1630 to 1936, but the cemetery existed at least since the 15th century. After an expansion around 1900, a tahara hall with a low dome was built. The new part of the cemetery was surrounded with a high brick wall. Part of the enclosure and the hall were demolished around 1982.

The cemetery was damaged during the occupation, it fell into disrepair after the war and was rebuilt and maintained by an association after 2001.

The cemetery is located about two kilometers east of the village center in a wooded area. It is said to have been created in 1838, but the oldest gravestone dates from 1829.

Until 1868, the Jews of Geldern also buried their dead here. The last to be buried here was Moritz Lebenstein in 1931.

Today there are still 25 gravestones in the cemetery, some of them very weathered.

A small cemetery hidden in the woods, difficult access on a forest road from the A5. In 2005, 2006, 2007 restored and documented by LOT e.V. (see related links). The area is manageable, in the center of the cemetery a hill rises up, on which graves are closely located. In front of the entrance are lined up three gravestones, which were dug out of the ground by LOT e.V., they were probably thrown on a pile.