49°29' N 8°36' E. This town in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is situated on the right bank of the Neckar, 10 km E of Mannheim, and 10 km NW of Heidelberg on Bertha Benz Memorial Route. The old town from the Late Middle Ages dates back to Celtic and Roman ages.
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68526 Baden-Württemberg (Gerz, Peters).
DISTRICT: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Part of today's general City cemetery on Wallstadter Straße (Detail).
IN USE: From 1848 (first burial) until 1938. Oldest legible gravestone dated 1849.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 96.
DOCUMENTATION:
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Part of today's general City cemetery on Wallstadter Straße (Detail).
IN USE: From 1848 (first burial) until 1938. Oldest legible gravestone dated 1849.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 96.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones with mapping of graves by Zentralarchiv.
- 1992 complete cemetery documentation including above photographs by the Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt, ed. Barbara Döpp).
- 1995 photographs of all gravestones by Ladenburg.
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- History by Darmstädter 1926.
- Photographic cemetery overall view by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.# 126.
- History by Hoffmann 1985, pages 2-3.
- History by Ladenburg 1995, pages 98-101 and 250-254.
- History by Zieher 1998, page 678.
- It is assumed that during the Middle Ages and during the following Early Modern Period the Jewish community of Ladenburg used the cemetery in Worms for burials. During the period between 1674 and 1847 the cemetery in Hemsbach (Hahn 1988, page 470) was used.
- There is a memorial stone in the cemetery in honour of the Jewish citizens of Ladenburg who lost their lives during the Nazi era.
(Translated from German June 2008)
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