Obj. ID: 23504
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Kromołów, Poland
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish cemetery in Kromołów is one of the largest, oldest and best-preserved sites of this kind in the entire region. It is a simple, traditional Jewish cemetery with rows of tombstones facing the east, containing more than 900 tombstones (some of them dating back to the 18th century) - are the preserved, original auxiliary buildings, including one of the few surviving Jewish funeral homes in the region as well as the cemetery watchman’s house.
The site of the cemetery, founded in the 18th century, was extended on several occasions. In the 1920s, the funds donated by Jakub J. Löwenstein allowed for the construction of a small funeral home and a watchman’s house in the eastern part of the cemetery, in the vicinity of the entrance gate, with the entire site being surrounded by a surviving perimeter wall. At the same time, in the south-western part of the necropolis, a small war cemetery was formed in 1926, dedicated to the soldiers who lost their lives in the area around Kromołów during World War I.
In 1992, at the initiative of the Katowice Jewish Community Council, clean-up and renovation works were performed on the site, while a new gate was erected one year later.
Date of the oldest tombstone: 1730
Date of the latest tombstone: 1942
Perimeter length: 299.14 meters
