EPPINGEN: 75031 Baden-Württemberg
DISTRICT: Heilbronn
SOURCE: Gerz and Peters
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: "grosser Hellberg" , Weinbrennerstrasse.
IN USE: From 1819 until 1939.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 708
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1983 – 1987 in Eppingen (photographs of all gravestones, copies of all inscriptions and cemetery layout).
- 1986 photographs of all gravestones and cemetery layout by Zentralarchiv.
PUBLICATIONS:
NOTES:
- Prior to having their own cemetery in 1819, the Eppingen Jewish community used the cemeteries in Oberöwisheim and Heinsheim for burials (Hahn 1988, page 225). After 1819 this cemetery was also used by other Jewish communities in the surrounding area.
- At the entrance to the cemetery is a commemorative plaque honouring Jewish soldiers from Eppingen, Gemmingen, Mühlbach and Richen, who had lost their lives during WW1. In addition a new commemorative plaque “Siehe, der Stein schreit aus der Mauer” is in place together with fragments of old gravestones set in concrete.
- The Eppingen cemetery was repeatedly desecrated during its existence (Eppingen 1989, pages 36-37). By order of the military government work on the reconstruction of the cemetery was undertaken in October 1945 (Eppingen 1989, page 37-38). The worst vandalism occurred in October 1982, when 50 gravestones were destroyed (Eppingen 1989, page 39).
SOURCE: University of Heidelberg , Alemannia Judaica and Kraichgau Projekt Group
[[Researched and translated from German February 2008]
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