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.

• 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.