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Jewish cemetery in Opole

Graniczna, 46-020 Opole, Poland

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Place Types Cemetery
Address Graniczna, 46-020 Opole, Poland
Coordinate 50.6560984,17.9331613
Website Unknown
Rating 5
Compound Code MW4M+C7 Opole, Poland

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M__________M (05/07/2019)

Well-kept cemetery, a patch of land where you can feel melancholy and reverie, peace and quiet, in my opinion, the cemeteries have this to us that show us ... passing away.

Karolina Flis-Ciepiela (11/18/2017)

Interesting place. Many celebrities deserved for the city buried there

BlackOldDragon (06/13/2017)

A quarter of the graves are overturned, but the cemetery still survived in fairly good condition. The gate from the cemetery is probably usually closed.

Krzysztof Kalinowski (08/22/2017)

On July 3, 1816, the Municipality of Opole agreed to the arrangement of a Jewish cemetery with the recommendation of its location outside the city. The proposal of the Jewish kehilla to locate the cemetery 2.5 km south of the city's borders at that time was approved by the authorities on February 16, 1817. The Opole Magistrate then agreed to buy from the farmer Józef Kurpiers the land located on the grounds of the village of Nowa Wieś Królewska. The first funeral at the Opole Jewish cemetery took place in autumn 1821, when the teacher Gimpel Pozner was buried there. This took place even before the official opening of the cemetery, which took place in 1822. The cemetery was small, occupying the area of the current quarter I, i.e. about 0.12 ha. In 1866 0.43 ha was bought from farmer B. Duda and the second quarter was created, and at the turn of the 19th and 20th century the third quarter was added. In the interwar period, the cemetery was full again and the Jewish community bought a plot from the city at the municipal cemetery in Półwsi, but three years later it had to sell half of it to military quarters, and in 1939 the rest. The last burial at the Opole Jewish cemetery took place in 1940.