Botpalad Old Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Hungary
Region
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
District
Fehérgyarmati
Settlement
Botpalád
Site address
The entrance is located at 133, Fő Street. (Through the house of the caretaker).
GPS coordinates
48.0267, 22.80852
Perimeter length
68 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The site has many thick bushes, but the grass is mown.
Number of existing gravestones
8 gravestones: 6 intact and 2 broken.
Date of oldest tombstone
1873
Date of newest tombstone
1907
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Property of local community
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
The old Jewish cemetery in is marked on the cadastral map of 1896. The oldest found tombstone in the old Jewish cemetery in Botpalád dates to 1873 and the newest to 1907. Since then, burials were presumably conducted in the new cemetery.
Botpalád is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. In 1880, the village had 44 Jewish residents, at which time the total population was 830. By 1910, the Jewish community increased to 52, however after this year, the number of Jews in the village began to decline. By 1941, among the town’s total population of 939, only 15 Jews remained in the village.
