Though you will not find hundreds of preserved tombstones at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Plzeň it is still worth visiting as a reminder of just how some Jewish landmarks were treated in the past.
The first Jewish cemetery in Plzeň was established in the middle of the 13th century. Today, however, we have only a rough idea of where it stood because it vanished without trace in 1504. In 1856, less than two kilometres north from the main square, in the district of Lochotín, a second cemetery was created, though after 1930 it underwent great devastation. In 1986 even the perimeter wall and ceremonial hall, including a gravedigger’s flat, were demolished. The tombstones that had survived until then were broken up and dumped in a local ravine. Of hundreds, just a few remained. They have been placed on the site of the former ceremonial hall along with a piece of granite on which a memorial has been inscribed.
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