Old Jewish Cemetery, Cieszyn
Old Jewish Cemetery is one of two Jewish cemeteries in Cieszyn, Poland; together with New Jewish Cemetery. Situated on Hażlaska Street 39, it is the oldest of them.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: Jewish cemetery in Cieszyn
- Also known as: “Old Jewish Cemetery in Cieszyn” and “Stary Cmentarz Żydowski”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New Jewish cemetery in Cieszyn and Saint George’s Church, Cieszyn.
New Jewish cemetery in Cieszyn
Cemetery
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New Jewish cemetery in Cieszyn is situated 170 metres northeast of Old Jewish Cemetery, Cieszyn.
Saint George’s Church, Cieszyn
Church
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Saint George's Church is a church from the turn of the 15th century, located in Cieszyn at Liburnia 1 street. Initially it was a chapel serving a local asylum and later a hospital church. Saint George’s Church, Cieszyn is situated 410 metres south of Old Jewish Cemetery, Cieszyn.
Piast tower in Cieszyn
Piast tower in Cieszyn – a defence tower of the former castle of the dukes of Cieszyn on Castle Hill in Cieszyn, Poland one of the four that once existed there and the only one that survived. Piast tower in Cieszyn is situated 580 metres south of Old Jewish Cemetery, Cieszyn.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Český Těšín and Mosty.
Český Těšín
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Český Těšín is a town in North Moravia and Silesia in the Czech Republic, with a population of 23,300 as of 2024. Its main industries are metal-working and book production. Cieszyn east across the river is its twin town in the Silesian Voivodeship of southern Poland, described in a separate article.
Mosty
Village
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Mosty is a village and part of Český Těšín in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of Mistřovice in 1960 and later Český Těšín in 1975. Mosty is situated 3 km west of Old Jewish Cemetery, Cieszyn.
Svibice
Neighborhood
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Svibice was a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality, but became administratively a part of Český Těšín in 1947. The name is derived from the świba bush, from the cornus genius. Svibice is situated 3 km south of Old Jewish Cemetery, Cieszyn.
Old Jewish Cemetery, Cieszyn
- Categories: Jewish cemetery and burial
- Location: Cieszyn, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.75633° or 49° 45′ 23″ northLongitude
18.62877° or 18° 37′ 44″ eastOpen location code
8FXWQJ4H+GGOpenStreetMap ID
way 59566705OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q7084303
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Vietnamese—“Old Jewish Cemetery, Cieszyn” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Starý židovský hřbitov v Těšíně”
- German: “Alter jüdischer Friedhof”
- Greek: “Παλαιό Εβραϊκό Κοιμητήριο στο Τσιέσιν”
- Greek: “Παλαιό Εβραϊκό Κοιμητήριο”
- Hausa: “Tsohon Kabari na Yahudawa, Cieszyn”
- Polish: “Cmentarz żydowski w Cieszynie”
- Polish: “Stary Cmentarz Żydowski w Cieszynie”
- Spanish: “antiguo cementerio judío de Cieszyn”
- Spanish: “Antiguo cementerio judío de Cieszyn”
- Spanish: “cementerio judío de Cieszyn”
- Vietnamese: “Nghĩa trang Do Thái cổ, Cieszyn”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Old Jewish Cemetery, Cieszyn”. Photo: Gaj777, CC BY-SA 4.0.