Cimetière juif de Graz, Jewish cemetery in Graz, Austria.

The Jewish cemetery in Graz was laid out in 1864/65 in Wetzelsdorf, then at the city boundary on the Alte Poststraße, and the first burial took place in the northern section on 14 July 1865. The grounds hold graves from the founding period onward, including family plots whose choice of place was granted to the founders of the Israelitische Corporation. A ceremonial hall by architect Alexander Zerkowitz, inaugurated in 1910, was destroyed in 1938; a new hall opened in 1991.

In October 1863 Leopold Ritter petitioned the Graz magistrate and the Styrian governorate for a Jewish cemetery, since burials in the region were not permitted and bodies had to be transported to Hungary. The imperial ministry approved it on 10 January 1864, the Wetzelsdorf plot was bought on 29 November 1864, and the first burial took place on 14 July 1865. The ceremonial hall by Alexander Zerkowitz followed in 1910.

The cemetery is run by the Israelite Cultural Community of Graz, which took over the site's administration from the Chewra-Kadischa burial society in 1884. The founders of the Israelite Corporation were granted a memorial column and free choice of family plots in perpetuity, and Leopold Ritter kept the right to the first choice of grave site. Medieval Jewish gravestones recovered in 1853/54 from demolition material of the Graz castle were once set into the ceremonial hall wall.

The cemetery lies in Wetzelsdorf on the western edge of Graz, on Alte Poststraße. The grounds are level and walkable, with paths between the rows of graves; the 1991 ceremonial hall stands on the site of the one burned in 1938. Visitors should dress modestly and keep voices low, as burials still take place here.

The cemetery survived the destruction of 1938 and the following years, while almost all other traces of Jewish life in Graz disappeared. This survival makes it today a singular testimony to a lost community.