Cemetery

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.

The Jewish Cemetery Hemsbach is a Jewish cemetery in Hemsbach, a town in the Rhine-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg. The cemetery is a cultural monument worthy of protection. The Jewish cemetery of Hemsbach was established in 1674. It is located east of the village on the Mühlweg. The dead from the villages in the area were also buried here.

In 1882 a cemetery of the Jewish community was established near the railroad line Jagstfeld - Osterburken a few hundred meters from the village. Here the Jews from Sennfeld and the neighboring communities of Adelsheim and Korb were buried. There are 128 gravestones documented in the archives. In addition, a memorial stone was erected for the Jewish soldiers who died in the 1st World War. 

Jews were buried here between 1905 and 1935.

The dead of the Jewish community Grötzingen were buried first in (Bruchsal-)Obergrombach, since about 1900 on an own cemetery in the Gewann "Junge Hälden" (today within a new development area). on this cemetery ("Judengottesacker" called) 13 gravestones (area 1.08 ar) can be found.

The Jewish cemetery in Bukhara is the oldest and the largest Jewish burial ground in Uzbekistan. Here, too, Sephardic graves are mixed with the flat scones and Ashkenazic graves with vertical stones. In the last time stones with the pictures of the deceased are added - for orthodox Jews an abomination. I have not found literature on the history and occupancy of the cemetery.

As early as the 5th century B.C., during the time of the Babylonian exile of the Jewish people, Jews migrated via Persia to Central Asia. They settled in Uzbekistan. Sephardic customs came to the country only in the 18th century through a traveling Jew. Ashkenazi Jews migrated to Uzbekistan from Germany and western Russia.

The language of Uzbek Jews is Bukharic. This dialect, mixed with Hebrew roots, was also spoken in synagogues and during ritual acts. Due to expulsion and emigration, the community in the city is small.

In 1656 Jews had again been allowed to settle in England. The first of them, Sephardic Marrans from the Netherlands, settled on the eastern edge of the city area, and there they established their first cemetery in Mile End, the 'Betahayim Velho', already in the following year, 1657. It was only about 0.6 hectares in size, and in view of the steadily growing congregation, it was foreseeable that its capacity would be exhausted in the not distant future.