Jüdischer Friedhof Gauting, Gauting

The Gauting Jewish Cemetery was established for the deceased Jewish patients of the Gauting Lung Hospital. It is directly adjacent to the Gauting Forest Cemetery. The first burials there took place as early as 1945, and in 1947 the cemetery was officially inaugurated; the inauguration was combined with the unveiling of a memorial to the six million Holocaust victims during the Nazi era, which stands in the cemetery.

A total of 172 people were buried in the cemetery, 145 of the initially created graves are classified as war graves and thus may not be abandoned. After 1956/57, only sporadic burials took place, the last in 1996 and 1998. Since 1957, the cemetery has been maintained by the Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes, like the cemetery of a concentration camp. Due to reburials, there are still 143 graves in the cemetery. Numerous gravestones and the memorial were renovated in 1997. The plot is elongated, it is divided in the middle by a gravel path that runs towards the memorial.