Alemannia Judaica

Carl Ballin was an important court banker in Oldenburg. His brother Dr. Georg Ballin was a pharmacist and also well known in the city.

The business was one of the economically important trades in Oldenburg.

The new Jewish cemetery was established in 1917/18 as the present part of the main municipal cemetery. The first person buried in the cemetery was Berta Hammerschmidt, who died in early November 1916. After the old Jewish cemetery was fully occupied in 1916 and a new one was still in the planning stage, the Chief Rabbi of Cottbus, Dr. Posner, had contacted Mayor Dreifert after her death on behalf of Judicial Councilor Abraham Hammerschmidt.

The dead of the Jewish community of Baden-Baden were initially buried in Kuppenheim. Here are also graves of Jewish spa guests who died in Baden-Baden.

In1918 to 1921, a Jewish cemetery was established in the Lichtental district, located within the general cemetery there on Eckbergstrasse (size 23.81 acres). It is occupied until the present time.
On him are a cemetery hall and since 1976 a memorial stone for the destroyed synagogue.

The Jewish cemetery in Rhaunen was established in 1892 at the latest. The cemetery area covers 8.75 Ar. 
   
The graves are arranged in chronological order in two rows of graves. A large number of the gravestones have been preserved. Some stones have become illegible due to weathering. The cemetery presents itself in a very well-kept condition. 
   

The dead of the Jewish community in Birkenfeld were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hoppstädten. A separate Jewish cemetery in Birkenfeld was established in 1891/92. In November 1891, the Jewish community asked the responsible authorities for the possibility to establish a cemetery in Birkenfeld. In the course of the year 1892 the cemetery could be handed over to its purpose. The oldest gravestone is from 1895 (for Lazarus Weil, died February 10, 1895). The cemetery was occupied until the Nazi period. The probably last burial was in 1939.

In 1771 a first synagogue was built next to the cemetery (Judenberg 24). This first synagogue was demolished after 1822. According to an old tradition, a small elevation in the present southwest corner of the cemetery indicates the location of the Torah shrine of the old synagogue.