The Jewish graveyard in Bad Sobernheim is believed to have existed since the early 19th century . Its earliest appearance in records was in the original 1825 cadastral survey . Rural cadastral names such as " Auf 'm Judenkirchhof " or " In der Judendell " , however , may mean that it has existed longer . If the Bad Sobernheim graveyard was only laid out in 1820 or thereabouts , it is unclear where the town 's Jewish families would have buried their dead before that , although candidates include the central graveyards in Bad Kreuznach , Gemünden and Meisenheim . Registered as the graveyard 's owner in 1826 was the horse dealer Philipp Werner ( at the time , the Jewish community could not function as an incorporated body and thus could not own things ) . The graveyard was still in the Family Werner 's ownership in 1860 . In 1856 , a field beside the Jewish graveyard was named that was in the Jewish community 's ownership , which became the new annex to the graveyard ( the new Sobernheim and Monzingen section ) . The oldest preserved gravestone is from 1829 , bearing the aforesaid Philipp Werner 's name . The last three burials were in the time of the Third Reich , shortly before the deportations began . Those buried were Ida and Hermann Wolf and also Jonas Haas . No further gravestones were ever placed . The graveyard 's area is 6 & thinsp ; 979 m2 , making it the second biggest in the Bad Kreuznach district . The graveyard is divided into four parts , the old and new Sobernheim sections , the Waldböckelheim section and the Monzingen section . Standing in the Monzingen section are gravestones from the Monzingen graveyard , which was levelled in 1938 . The gravestones were transferred to Bad Sobernheim . In the Waldböckelheim section , members of the Jewish community in Waldböckelheim were buried in the 19th century . There was a relationship between Waldböckelheim and Sobernheim especially in the Family Marum : Anselm Marum the Younger was born in Waldböckelheim , but he later became leader of the Jewish community in Sobernheim . The old Sobernheim section is where the dead from Sobernheim were buried in the 19th century . Beginning in 1902 , the new Sobernheim section was used . The first burial there was Sara Marum , who had founded the Marum stocking factory . In the middle , among the sections , stands the 1950 monument where the memorial tablet to the fallen from the First World War is set . This was to be found at the synagogue ( see '' ' Synagogue ' '' above ) until 1938 , and it was replaced with a replica in 2005 . There was another , smaller Jewish graveyard at the northwest edge of the town graveyard " Auf Löhborn " , behind the chapel , that was laid out in 1925 . This new burying ground was secured through community leader Leopold Loeb 's efforts . Buried there were his wife 's siblings and in 1930 , Loeb himself . In 1937 – in the time of the Third Reich – the dead buried at this graveyard had to be removed and buried once again at the " Domberg " graveyard . Within the municipal graveyard , Jews were now " unwanted " . During the time of the Third Reich , the " Domberg " graveyard was heavily defiled and ravaged . The worst destruction happened on Kristallnacht ( 9 – 10 November 1938 ) , wrought by 10 or 15 men , mostly Brownshirt thugs . They threw the gravestones about and shattered stones and inscription tablets . Quite a few pieces of stone were rolled down the hill or thrown over into neighbouring fields . Parts of the graveyard ( among them the left side of the Waldböckelheim section ) were then or in the time that followed almost utterly removed . After 1945 , the stones – wherever possible – were put back up , but this left some of the stones in the older sections no longer standing in their original places . Many bits of rubble could not be identified and therefore could not be placed . On 15 October 1950 , the memorial was dedicated , and now remembers not only the local Jews who fell in the First World War but also those Jews from Bad Sobernheim who died . Even after 1945 , the graveyard was defiled several times – at least four – the last time in January 1983 , when some 40 gravestones were thrown about and heavily damaged . The plaque at the graveyard reads as follows : Jewish graveyards “ Auf dem Domberg ” in Sobernheim . In 1343 , the first Jewish fellow townsfolk in Sobernheim were mentioned in documents . Their burial places are unknown . Likely their burials took place outside the town wall . In Napoleonic times about 1800 , there was a new burial order . Thereafter , no more dead could be buried in residential areas . At about the same time as the graveyard “ Auf Löhborn ” was laid out , so was the Jewish graveyard “ Auf dem Domberg ” . The oldest gravestone comes from 1829 . The graveyard is made up of three parts . In the oldest part , the dead are buried with their heads towards Jerusalem , thus eastwards . In the middle part of the graveyard , the dead were buried turned towards the synagogue , which can be seen well from the graveyard . Since the former Jewish graveyard at Monzingen was closed at the NSDAP ’s instigation , the available stones from Monzingen were “ symbolically ” set up at the Sobernheim graveyard . Also worthy of mention is the tablet at the graveyard honouring the fallen Jewish soldiers from the First World War 1914-18 . Beginning in 1930 , Jewish families buried their dead at the town graveyard “ Auf Löhborn ” . On the NSDAP ’s orders in 1933-34 , exhumations of the buried Jews were carried out , and they were eventually buried at the Jewish graveyard “ Auf dem Domberg ” . With regard to the care of graves , Jewish people have different customs to Christians . After setting the gravestone , the rest of the dead should for ever be undisturbed . It is customary to plant ivy or periwinkle on the graves . When visiting a relative ’s grave , one lays a stone on the gravestone , or on the anniversary of his death , a grave candle is lit . The graveyard is closed on all Saturdays as well as on all Jewish holidays . The Jewish graveyard lies on the Domberg ( mountain ) east of the town centre , not far from the road " Auf dem Kolben "
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Bad Sobernheim