ALTERNATE NAMES: JEBENHAUSEN [GER], JEBENJAUSEN, GÖPPINGEN-JEBENHAUSEN. Göppingen at 48°42' N, 09°40' E is a large district city about 40 km E of Stuttgart. Communities of Schlat, Wäschenbeuren, and Wangen are part of the town of Göppingenroo. Jewish lived in Goppingen at least since the 19th century with a community and Freihofstraße synagogue destroyed by the Nazis on Kristalnacht 1938. The Jewish cemetery inside the Municipal Cemetery on Hohenstaufenstraße has a plaque commemorating the Jewish victims of the Shoah. 1900 Jewish population was 100. Jewish museum. Wikipedia
Jebenhausen ( 335 m above sea level, since 1939 is a southern suburb district of Göppingen . 21 miles ESE of Stuttgart, in Landkreis Göppingen, E Baden-Württemberg. Wikipedia. The Jewish community dates from 1777 but diminished due to emigration and moving to larger cities. In 1899, the synagogue closed. The cemetery is in Jebenhausen. [Feb 2013]
- Memor-Buch - Die jüdischen Friedhöfe Jebenhausen und Göppingen
(Göppingen, 1990)
JEBENHAUSEN 73035 Baden-Württemberg (Goeppingen)
DISTRICT: Göppingen
SOURCE: Gerz and Peters
LOCATION OF CEMETERIES: Göppingen I and Göppingen II (Jebenhausen).
Göppingen I - Hohenstaufenstrasse.
IN USE: 1903 consecrated , 1904 first burial, 1977 most recent burial
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 133
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1926-1927 burial register and cemetery layout by Aron Tänzer.
- 1986-1988 cemetery layout, photographs of all gravestones with copies of their inscriptions and translations by Göppingen and Naftali Bar Giora Bamberger.
- History, cemetery layout and burial register (up to 1927) by Tänzer 1927, pages 506-514.
- Full cemetery documentation by Bamberger 1990, pages 256-346.
- Numerous photographs and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- History, photographs and diagrams by Stadt Göppingen, Archiv und Museen.
- Prior to having their local cemetery, the Göppingen Jews used the cemetery in Jebenhausen (see Tänzer 1927, pages 211-214). As from 1904 a Jewish section in the general City’s cemetery, but not specifically designated as such, on the Hohenstaufenstrasse was used.
- A commemorative stone plaque in the cemetery honours the victims of the Holocaust.
Göppingen II (Jebenhausen) - Kreuzhaldenweg (DETAIL).
IN USE: From 1779 (oldest gravestone dated 1781). Last burial 1939.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 349
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1919-1926 burial register, cemetery layout and copies of selected gravestone instriptions by Aron Tänzer.
- 1986 -1988 cemetery layout and photographs of all gravestone inscriptions with translations by Göppingen and Naftali Bar Giora Bamberger.
- History, burial register (up to 1926) and cemetery layout by Tänzer 1927, pages 208-261.
- Gravestone inscriptions of important members of the community by Tänzer 1927, pages 87, 156, 157 and 200.
- Two photographs, each with several gravestones by Württemberg 1932, page 89.
- History by Kauss 1981, page 15.
- Complete cemetery documentation by Bamberger 1990, pages 17-254.
- History, photographs and diagrams by Stadt Göppingen, Archiv und Museen.
SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Alemannia Judaica.
[Researched and translated from German February 2008]
To see information and photographs of individual gravestones in cemeteries in Baden-Wuerttemberg, click on this link and follow the directions on that page.