The Jewish Cemetery of Nagymegyer

The most significant monument of the former Jewish community in Nagymegyer today is the Nagymegyer Jewish Cemetery. The cemetery is located north of the city, next to the Nagymegyer Evangelical and former prisoner of war cemeteries, the so-called “Serbian cemetery”. A dirt road leads to the cemetery from Ipari Street. The cemetery was established in the first half of the 19th century on the former Nagymegyer curial noble estate. The cemetery is owned by the Dunaszerdahely Jewish Community, its area is 72x50 m. There are 208 graves on its territory. A small part of the gravestones are damaged. The inscriptions on most of them are worn away. However, some gravestones have been renovated in recent years. The inscriptions on the gravestones are in Hebrew for the most part. There is Hungarian text on the back of four gravestones. The cemetery also contains the tombstones of prominent figures and rabbis of the former Jewish community of Nagymegyer. Among these was the tombstone of Rabbi Yoszéf Dov Lock. The tombstones often contain basic information (name, date of death, words praising the deceased, poems), which can even fill the entire surface of the tombstone. These are characteristic period documents that reflect the moral standards of the Jewish community at the time. The graves in the cemetery were arranged from east to west. Most of the tombstones are made of gray or white marble. Women and men were buried mixed. Burials are no longer held in the cemetery today.