49°09' N 9°07' E, incorporating SCHLUCHTERN: Leingarten is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn, 7 km W of Heilbronn and formed 1 January 1970, when the municipalities of Großgartach and Schluchtern merged.
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The Jewish community were first buried in Schluchtern and Waibstadt and Heinsheim. In 1882 a private cemetery formed, now located in a new area on der Kiesbergstraße (Parcel 6159, face a 3.49; last burial 1969) on the eastern border of Schluchtern, a district of Leingarten in Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg. The 349 m² cemetery was built in 1882. The earliest of the 62 gravestones dates from 1882, the most recent from 1969.
- Norbert Geiss: History of Jews in Schluchtern. A book of remembrance for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews. Lutheran Parish Schluchtern, Leingarten 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812485-8-6
- Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: places and institutions. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 , pp. 295 (Memorial Book of the synagogues in Germany. Volume 4)
Commons: Jewish cemetery Schluchtern - collection of images, videos and audio files
Information about the Jewish cemetery Schluchtern at Alemannia Judaica
Information about the Jewish cemetery Schluchtern in the list of Jewish cemeteries in Baden-Württemberg the Central Archives for the Study of the History of the Jews in Germany with photos.
74211 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters).
DISTRICT: Heilbronn.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Kiesbergstrasse (Detail). Now located in a built-up area.
IN USE: From 1882 until 1969.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 62.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1989 photographs of all gravestones with mapping of graves by Zentralarchiv.
- 1991 complete cemetery documentation including above photographs by the Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt, ed. Frowald Gil Hüttenmeister).
- Numerous photographs of gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Prior to having their own cemetery, the Schluchtern Jewish community used the cemeteries in Waibstadt and in Heinsheim (see Angerbauer 1986, page 207 and Hahn 1988, page 236).
(Translated from German June 2008)