Jewish Cemetery, Chemnitz

Name: Jewish Cemetery
Address: Chemnitz, Germany

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The Jewish Cemetery Chemnitz is a cemetery in the independent city of Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany.

The Jewish cemetery of about 3,000 m² is located west of the city center halfway up the Kaßberg next to the Christian Matthäus cemetery. There are about 1,250 gravestones. Several stones lie overturned, some are damaged. The stone with the oldest dating is from 1878.

The cemetery is divided into seven sections. There is a section only for Orthodox Jews and separate fields each for children and for rabbis. There are some noteworthy monumental graves for Jews who worked in Chemnitz as major industrialists. The cemetery is still used for burials today.

In the cemetery, most of the approximately 80 to 100 children's graves were desecrated during the Nazi era. Only a few gravestones remained. Three of them were desecrated and overturned by unknown perpetrators on July 13, 2021.

Local name: Jüdischer FriedhofCoordinates: 50°49'41"N, 12°53'22"E

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AltendorfChemnitz Germany

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Jewish Cemetery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Sächsisches Industriemuseum Chemnitz, Gunzenhauser Museum, Deutsches Spielemuseum, Schloßbergmuseum.

0.5 miSE
Museum, Specialty museum
Sächsisches Industriemuseum Chemnitz, Chemnitz
14 min walk • The Saxon Museum of Industry is a museum with four locations in Saxony. It is organised as a "special purpose association", the members of which are the towns of Chemnitz, Crimmitschau, Ehrenfriedersdorf and Hoyerswerda.
1.1 miE
Museum, Specialty museum
Gunzenhauser Museum, Chemnitz
29 min walk • The Gunzenhauser Museum is a museum and art gallery located in Chemnitz, the third largest city of Saxony, Germany. It contains 2,459 works by 270 modern artists of the 20th century that have been collected by the art dealer Dr. Alfred Gunzenhauser.
0.5 miS
50°49'14"N • 12°53'33"E
Deutsches Spielemuseum, Chemnitz
14 min walk • Museum, Specialty museum, Children's museum
1.6 miNE
Museum, History museum
Schloßbergmuseum, Chemnitz
42 min walk • The Schloßbergmuseum is the museum of urban history of the city of Chemnitz. It is located in the district of Schloßchemnitz on the site of an old Benedictine monastery that Emperor Lothar III had built around 1136 on a mountain near the Chemnitz...
1.2 miNE
Monuments and statues
Vier Tageszeiten, Chemnitz
32 min walk • The "Four Times of Day" are four groups of figures designed by Johannes Schilling for the northern staircase of the Brühlsche Terrasse in Dresden. Viewed from left to right, the allegorical embodiments of "Evening" and "Night" were placed at the...
0.4 miS
50°49'21"N • 12°53'21"E
Straßenbahnmuseum, Chemnitz
11 min walk • Museum
~1660 ftNW
Church
St. Matthäus, Chemnitz
9 min walk • The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Matthew in the Altendorf district of the city of Chemnitz, Zinzendorfstraße 16, was built in 1885 according to plans by the architect Christian Friedrich Arnold and is a listed building.
1.6 miNE
Church
Schlosskirche St.Marien, Chemnitz
42 min walk • The Chemnitz Castle Church is located in the Chemnitz district of Schloßchemnitz on the Schloßberg and is considered the most valuable building in the city. It is one of two churches of the St.
1 miE
Church
St. Johannes Nepomuk, Chemnitz
26 min walk • The Provost Church of St. John Nepomuk is a Roman Catholic church building in Chemnitz. The current church was built between 1953 and 1955 according to a design by the Chemnitz architect Willy Schönefeld.
1 miSE
Specialty museum, Museum
Villa Esche, Chemnitz
27 min walk • Villa Esche in the Chemnitz district of Kapellenberg is an Art Nouveau villa built by Belgian architect and designer Henry van de Velde in 1902/1903 and extended in 1911. The house for textile manufacturer Herbert Eugen Esche and his family is...
0.8 miNE
Church
Church of the Holy Cross, Chemnitz
21 min walk • The Kreuzkirche of the St. Jakobi Kreuz parish was built in 1935/36 in the Kaßberg district of Chemnitz by Otto Bartning, an important church builder of the 20th century.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Which popular attractions are close to Jewish Cemetery?

Nearby attractions include St. Matthäus, Chemnitz (9 min walk), Straßenbahnmuseum, Chemnitz (11 min walk), Deutsches Spielemuseum, Chemnitz (14 min walk), Sächsisches Industriemuseum Chemnitz, Chemnitz (14 min walk).

How to get to Jewish Cemetery by public transport?

The nearest stations to Jewish Cemetery:

Bus

Weststraße • Lines: 62, 72, N17 (5 min walk)
Ernst-Heilmann-Straße • Lines: 62, 72, N17 (10 min walk)

Tram

Am Feldschlößchen • Lines: 1 (11 min walk)
Kappler Drehe • Lines: 1 (11 min walk)

Train

Chemnitz-Schönau (24 min walk)
Chemnitz Mitte (29 min walk)