Cemetery

"The cemetery is located on the outskirts of the town, in the Döhren forest.

The new cemetery has 37 gravestones. Originally there were 62 graves here, but after the war not all the graves destroyed by Nazi vandalism could be fully restored. 

• Fünf Gräber bear only Hebräish inscriptions,
• 31 stones show German and Hebräish characters,
• one stone – the für the Yugoslav soldier Mose Atijar – has only a German inscription.

On all gravestones can be found above two letters: „Pe – nun“ - the abbreviation for „Here rests ...“. Then, with an honorific introduction, the name of the deceased is mentioned and the date of death.

On the crest of the Lohberg is, stretched out on a length of approx. 300 m, the former Jewish cemetery, which was put on approximately around the year 1680 and on which today still 65 gravestones are to be found. The oldest ones date back to the 1770s and 1780s, while the youngest ones date back to 1926. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Jewish cemetery was established in 1845 and occupied until 1938. 50 gravestones are preserved. In addition, there is a collective grave for the bones of the cemetery in Lauterecken, which gave way to a road project in 1974.  

Hohenems is located only a few kilometers from  Bregenz in Vorarlberg. If you leave the small town in a southerly direction, you will find the Israelite cemetery on the slope of the "Schwefelberg".

"The cemetery "An der Höhne", which is said to date back to 1767, is about 1000 m²  large and today includes 25 gravestones from 1831 to 1934, plus two plinths without gravestone. The majority of the inscriptions have been traced with black paint. Noteworthy is the image of a butterfly in numerous pediments. In 2010 a memorial plaque with the names of 41 expelled or murdered Jews from Bremervörde was placed in the cemetery. The cemetery is in a well-kept condition.

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