DISTRICT: Karlsruhe.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Weingarten - Gewann Effenstiel.
IN USE: From 1833 (oldest datable gravestone 1903) until 1936 and again in 1950.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 35.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1986 photographs of all gravestones with mapping of graves by Zentralarchiv.
- 1993 cemetery area documentation including above photographs by the Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt, ed. Monika Preuß).
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Photographic overview of cemetery by Hundsnurscher/Taddey1968, fig.# 217.
- History by Theobald1985 (8).
- History by Büsing 1991, pages26-28.
NOTES:
- It is assumed that for burials up to 1632 the cemetery first in Worms and then in Obergrombach was used by the Weingarten community. (Hundsnurscher/Taddey1968, page288 and Hahn1988, page301).
- A cemetery in Weingarten has existed since 1833 in the Gewann Effenstiel.
- This cemetery contains a memorial in honour of the 7 named Jewish soldiers from Weingarten who fell during WW1.
SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Alemannia Judaica.
(Researched and translated from German January 2009).
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