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Beautiful bridge over the canal at Sundhouse.

The Jewish cemetery in Mackenheim was established in the 16th century or earlier; it was first mentioned on September 25, 1608, in connection with a legal dispute over the use of the community forest. Regarding the location of the cemetery in a remote spot in the Rheinwald, the historian Günter Boll refers to a Torah saying, which states: “You shall not act as the other nations do: they bury their dead everywhere, and they even bury them in their houses. But you shall choose distant places in your land where you shall bury the dead; between four cities a place shall be chosen where the dead shall be buried.” The resting place was used for a long time as a central cemetery by several Jewish communities in the area. Jewish communities from the area east of the Rhine (especially Breisach until 1755) also brought their dead to Mackenheim. In the old part of the cemetery there are gravestones from 1669 to 1850. The new part of the cemetery has been used up to the present day. The inscription on the memorial stone erected in 2009 on the edge of the new part records the names of the members of the exterminated Jewish communities of Mackenheim and Marckolsheim who fell victim to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. The cemetery building and the cemetery have been listed as "monuments historiques" since 2001. Sources (and detailed further information): https://www.alemannia-judaica.de/mackenheim_cimetiere.htm • https://israelite.webcimetiere.net/67/Mackenheim • Günter Boll: Der jüdische Friedhof von Mackenheim im Unterelsass (2011) [https://d-nb.info/1261799666/34]

Video in French: https://youtu.be/V2kctHh3EiI Nestled in the municipal forest of Mackenheim, away from the village, this small Judengarten (“Jewish garden”) preserves moving steles, the oldest of which dates back to 1669. Some, with their rich floral decorations, are small heads -baroque works, others, more stripped down, evoke the concern for sobriety and humility specific to Jewish funeral rites. Until the middle of the 18th century, the site received the bodies of the deceased from the surrounding communes (on both banks of the Rhine), who did not have authorization to open a cemetery and the coffins were transported by boat. The oldest unearthed stele dates from 1669; it keeps the memory of Abraham ben Eléazar, buried on 3 Tamouz 429 of the small comput (July 2, 1669). From this first period, we still find the steles of Rabbi Jérémie, son of Rabbi Jeduha who, after having been president of the Tribunal Rabbinic and director of the Talmudic school in Gunzenhausen (Bavaria), became rabbi of the Jews of Haute-Alsace in 1684. He died in 1685 in the town of Saint-Louis les Breisach, an ephemeral city nicknamed "town of straw" where the Jews of Vieux Breisach had to settle down. Some ideas for deciphering the steles: http://israelite.webcimetiere.net/67/Mackenheim https://www.juedische-friedhoefe.info/friedhoefe-nach-regionen/frankreich/juedische-friedhoefe-im-elsass/mackenheim/der-juedische-friedhof-von-mackenheim.html#/4

Video in French: https://youtu.be/V2kctHh3EiI Nestled in the municipal forest of Mackenheim, away from the village, this small Judengarten (“Jewish garden”) preserves moving steles, the oldest of which dates back to 1669. Some, with their rich floral decorations, are small heads -baroque works, others, more stripped down, evoke the concern for sobriety and humility specific to Jewish funeral rites. Until the middle of the 18th century, the site received the bodies of the deceased from the surrounding municipalities (on both banks of the Rhine), who did not have authorization to open a cemetery and the coffins were transported by boat. The oldest unearthed stele dates from 1669; it keeps the memory of Abraham ben Eléazar, buried on 3 Tamouz 429 of the small comput (July 2, 1669). From this first period, we still find the steles of Rabbi Jérémie, son of Rabbi Jeduha who, after having been president of the Tribunal Rabbinic and director of the Talmudic school in Gunzenhausen (Bavaria), became rabbi of the Jews of Haute-Alsace in 1684. He died in 1685 in the town of Saint-Louis les Breisach, an ephemeral city nicknamed "town of straw" where the Jews of Vieux Breisach had to settle down. Some ideas for deciphering the steles: http://israelite.webcimetiere.net/67/Mackenheim https://www.juedische-friedhoefe.info/friedhoefe-nach-regionen/frankreich/juedische-friedhoefe-im-elsass/mackenheim/der-juedische-friedhof-von-mackenheim.html#/4

Video in French: https://youtu.be/V2kctHh3EiI Nestled in the municipal forest of Mackenheim, away from the village, this small Judengarten (“Jewish garden”) preserves moving steles, the oldest of which dates back to 1669. Some, with their rich floral decorations, are small heads -baroque works, others, more stripped down, evoke the concern for sobriety and humility specific to Jewish funeral rites. Until the middle of the 18th century, the site received the bodies of the deceased from the surrounding communes (on both banks of the Rhine), who did not have authorization to open a cemetery and the coffins were transported by boat. The oldest unearthed stele dates from 1669; it keeps the memory of Abraham ben Eléazar, buried on 3 Tamouz 429 of the small comput (July 2, 1669). From this first period, we still find the steles of Rabbi Jérémie, son of Rabbi Jeduha who, after having been president of the Tribunal Rabbinic and director of the Talmudic school in Gunzenhausen (Bavaria), became rabbi of the Jews of Haute-Alsace in 1684. He died in 1685 in the town of Saint-Louis les Breisach, an ephemeral city nicknamed "town of straw" where the Jews of Vieux Breisach had to settle down. The western part, the oldest, was originally an intercommunal cemetery where Jews from both banks of the Rhine, mainly from the town of Breisach, were buried (around thirty graves). In fact, the Jewish community of Breisach had to wait until 1755 to obtain authorization to open its cemetery; until this date, the deceased from this community were buried in the Mackenheim cemetery. This was also the case for the communities on the right bank of the Rhine: Biesheim, Riedwihr, Grussenheim, Marckolsheim, Muttersholtz, Diebolsheim... whose cemeteries were only authorized at the very beginning of the 19th century. Some ideas for deciphering the steles: http://israelite.webcimetiere.net/67/Mackenheim https://www.juedische-friedhoefe.info/friedhoefe-nach-regionen/frankreich/juedische-friedhoefe-im-elsass/mackenheim/der-juedische-friedhof-von-mackenheim.html#/4

Great Alsatian place and wonderful holiday home.

This Jewish cemetery is completely hidden in the middle of the forest.

Beautiful landscape on the Ill near Ehnwihr. More information: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehnwihr