KIRCHARDT incorporating BERWANGEN: Kirchardt is a town in the district of Heilbronn at 49°12' N 9°00' E, 298.5 miles SW of Berlin. syngagogue and community history. [Feb 2013]
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cemetery history and photos.Jewish dead here were first buried in Berwangen (Bad Rappenau) Heinsheim and Waibstadt. Since the mid-19th century a cemetery on their own at here at Fürfelderweg (Parcel 450/1; area 33.09 a; Getränkehandlung Kuhn). In the cemetery is a memorial to the "victims of persecution 1933-45." This last burial was in 1973 (Elsa Gutmann born Vollweiler), [Feb 2013]
DISTRICT: Heilbronn.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Fürfelderweg. (Detail).
IN USE: From 1877 (oldest identified gravestone) until 1938 and 1973.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 101.
DOCUMENTATION:
(Translated from German May 2008) LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Fürfelderweg. (Detail).
IN USE: From 1877 (oldest identified gravestone) until 1938 and 1973.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 101.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1987 photographs of all gravestones with cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
- 1992 basic cemetery documentation with these photographs by the State Office for Historic Monuments (Landesdenkmalamt Ed. Monika Preuß).
- Numerous photographs of individual gravestones and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.
- Photographic cemetery overview by Hundsnurscher/Taddey 1968, fig.#. 16.
- History by Angerbauer 1986, page 48.
- Prior to having their own cemetery in the mid-19th century, the Berwangen Jewish community used the cemeteries in Bad Rappenau-Heinsheim and Waibstadt.
- The cemetery contains a memorial listing the names of Jewish victims from Berwangen, during the Nazi era 1933/45.
- The last funeral to take place here was that of Elsa Gutmann neé Vollweiler in 1937, see Illustrated reminicences Abraham und Elsa Gutmann (1940-1967).