Cemetery

Old Jewish Cemetery  

The first burials in the Jewish Cemetery  Battonnstraße can be dated by a few gravestones to the year 1272. This makes it one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. In Judaism, the cemetery is considered an eternal resting place, and for this reason the graves may neither be dissolved nor the gravestones removed. When the capacities there are exhausted, he must be closed in 1828 with almost 7000 graves.

The Jewish cemetery in Alsheim was established only in 1896. Previously (since 1840) the dead of the community were buried in Osthofen . Jewish people who died in Mettenheim and Gimbsheim also found their final resting place in the Alsheim cemetery. The cemetery area covers 6.38 ar.

A Jewish cemetery was established in Heiligenstadt in the first half of the 19th century. The oldest grave is from 1829. The last burial in the Nazi period was in 1940. Possibly there was also still a burial in 1947  (Pauline Löwenstein in a grave without preserved inscription).  
The cemetery is surrounded by a plain wooden fence.    

The Jewish Cemetery is a cemetery of the city of Gotha in the district of Gotha in Thuringia.

 In 1829, with the permission of the government of the Duchy of Gotha, a new burial ground "next to the Siechhofe on the road to Kindleben" - on the former Chaussee Siebleben - Erfurt (today's Erfurter Landstraße) - could be established. These burial grounds were located close to each other. It is possible that 1829 was only an extension of the cemetery of 1768. The cemetery was occupied until the new cemetery was established. There is nothing left of this cemetery today.

The Jewish community in Geisa had a cemetery since the second half of the 18th century, which was expanded in 1857. The older part of the cemetery is located on a wooded hand with 27 still recognizable gravestones. The number of burials is assumed with about 200.

The New Jewish Cemetery is the cemetery of the Jewish community of Erfurt. It was established in 1871 after the old cemetery on Cyriaksstraße could no longer be expanded. It is located on the edge of the Steigerwald next to the Thüringenhalle, Werner-Seelenbinder-Straße 3, and is still used as a burial place today.

A Jewish community re-emerged in the city at the beginning of the 19th century, which was able to establish a cemetery in front of the Brühler Tor at the beginning of today's Cyriakstraße in 1811/12. The cemetery was occupied until the construction of the new cemetery in 1878. In 1926 the cemetery was severely desecrated. In the process, three youths of the "Wiking-Bund" toppled or severely damaged 95 of the 130 existing gravestones at that time (see reports below). In 1938 the cemetery was again vandalized. 

During excavations at a construction site in the area between Andreasstraße, Großer Ackerhofgasse and Moritzstraße, 20 more pieces of medieval Jewish gravestones were found, including the oldest surviving gravestone from 1259 for "Frau Dolze, Tochter des Herrn Ascher."  Erfurt now has a total of 58 Jewish gravestones and gravestone fragments from the Middle Ages. Three of them are on display in the Old Synagogue. The newly discovered pieces will initially be housed in the stone depot of the Angermuseum.