Making History
The New Jewish Cemetery Dresden
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New Jewish Cemetery
Fiedlerstraße 3
01307 Dresden
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Jews in Dresden played a key role in shaping the city’s development, until this fruitful period was brought to an end by the Nazis. Despite severe damage caused by the bombing raid in 1945, many magnificent graves have been preserved in this cemetery, bearing witness to families who were particularly committed to this city up until 1933. For many decades, they shaped their home city culturally, intellectually and economically. On this tour, we will follow their stories – including those of the Arnhold, Klemperer, Gutmann and Joachimsthal families, amongst others.
Male visitors are asked to wear head coverings.
In cooperation with the Kügelgenhaus Dresden.
Event as part of the Tacheles Year.
The history of the New Jewish Cemetery Dresden
When this cemetery was opened in 1867, there was still a little time before the first burial, as the deceased Dresden Jews were still laid to rest in their usual old place in Dresden's Neustadt district. But the layout of the New Cemetery already heralded a new era. The architect Ernst Giese planned the new site as a park-like area with avenues and straight rows of graves. The gravestones were integrated into this design concept from the very beginning.
On this tour, you will learn a lot about the history of the cemetery, its buildings and its graves. We also tell you about the fascinating biographies of people buried here.
Male participants are requested to wear a head covering.
Accessibility at the event
Barrier-free access is not available in all parts of the cemetery.
About the organiser
Die Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen e.V. ist seit ihrer Gründung im September 1992 dem Anliegen verpflichtet, über jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in großer Breite zu informieren. Vorausgegangen waren der Eröffnung über zwei Jahre intensiver ehrenamtlicher Aufbauarbeit. Danach konnten die wiederhergestellten Räume im Erdgeschoß des Genossenschaftshauses Pulsnitzer Str. 10 in Dresden der öffentlichen Nutzung übergeben werden.
Seitdem entwickelte sich HATiKVA e.V. zu einer weit über die Stadtgrenzen von Dresden hinaus wirkenden Bildungs- und Kultureinrichtung, die in ihrer thematischen Spezifik, in ihrer Angebotsbreite aber insbesondere im Schwerpunktbereich außerschulischer Jugendbildung, im Freistaat Sachsen bisher einmalig ist.