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Premier cimetière juif

Peyrehorade, Landes, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Mur de clôture, sol et sous-sol du premier cimetière israélite (cad. AI 13) : inscription par arrêté du 27 septembre 1995
Protection dates
1995/09/27 : inscrit MH partiellement
Type
cimetière
Main period of construction
17e siècle, 18e siècle
Dates
1628
Ownership
propriété d'une association cultuelle
Address
rue des Chapons
Commune
Peyrehorade
Département
Landes
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
43.54759, -1.10946
Mérimée reference
PA00135181

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Bovrdelois, pais de Medoc et la prevoste de Born" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Le cimetière fut fondé en 1628, à l'extérieur des remparts sur un terrain acheté au seigneur d'Orthe et arriva à saturation en 1737 ; il abrite environ un millier de tombes. Les pierres tombales montrent, de 1633 à 1722, une judaïsation progressive des inscriptions funéraires.

English translation

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The cemetery was founded in 1628, outside the ramparts on land purchased from the lord of Orthe and reached saturation in 1737; it contains approximately a thousand tombs. The tombstones show, from 1633 to 1722, a progressive Judaization of the funeral inscriptions.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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