Germany’s federal government has granted €465,000 to the city of Münsingen for the restoration and preservation of the historic Jewish cemetery in its Buttenhausen district.
The grant, from the federal heritage conservation special program, was announced last week by Bundestage members Nils Schmid, SPD, and Michael Donth, CDU.
The money is intended to refurbish and repair graves and tombs. Work is schedule to begin later this year The total cost of the overall planned renovation project is estimated at €1.2 million. The work will be coordinated with the Jewish religious community of Württemberg.
“It is a great pleasure and a success that we have managed to win the contract for the promotion of the Jewish cemetery Buttenhausen,” Donth said on his web site.
The cemetery, established in 1789, has around 400 gravestones and is maintained by the city.
Information about the Jewish cemetery
Buttenhausen also has a Jewish Museum.
1 comment on “Germany: A €465,000 grant for the preservation of the historic Jewish cemetery In Münsingen-Buttenhausen”
Fine, indeed. But what about the documentation of the headstone inscriptions? Names, dates, eulogies, epithets, functions in the community?! Isn’t this as important as the material preservation – which cannot be as efficient in the long run as one would like it to be …
(And in case that documentation has been achieved already some time ago, why isn’t it mentioned?)
Anyway: hazaq v’eymats …