Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, France

The Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim lies at the end of the Rue Principale, on the left of the road to Wiwersheim at the corner of the Rue de Dossenheim, enclosed by a sandstone wall. It is divided into four sections: about 100 stones from the late 18th to the mid-19th century in the southwest, some 180 neoclassical stones in the northwest, about 50 stones from the early 20th century onward in the northeast, and an empty southeast part. Recent graves use granite.

The cemetery was laid out in 1793 at the end of the Rue Principale and has been used for burials ever since. Quatzenheim was the seat of a rabbinate from 1880 to 1910, and the grounds were divided into four sections: about 100 stones in the old south-western part, some 180 neoclassical stones in the north-west, about 50 in the north-east, and an empty south-eastern area. In the night of 18 to 19 February 2019, 96 graves were daubed with swastikas, one bearing the words "Elsassisches Schwarzen Wolfe"; President Emmanuel Macron and Chief Rabbi Haïm Korsia came the same day.

Quatzenheim was the seat of a rabbinate from 1880 to 1910, and the cemetery stayed in use through that period and after. The memorial at the main entrance from the Rue Principale lists the names of Quatzenheim Jews murdered in the Shoah. In the night of 18 to 19 February 2019, 96 graves were daubed with blue or yellow swastikas; one bore the words "Elsassisches Schwarzen Wolfe".

The cemetery lies at the end of the Rue Principale, on the left of the road toward Wiwersheim at the corner of the Rue de Dossenheim. A sandstone wall encloses it, and the memorial to Quatzenheim's Holocaust victims stands at the main entrance. The south-eastern section is empty of graves.

Quatzenheim was the seat of a rabbinate from 1880 to 1910, so burials here served more than the village alone. The cemetery has stayed in use since 1793, and its four sections show the shift from weathered sandstone slabs to granite markers of recent decades.