לובלין

אוהל החוזה מלובלין

Lublin — Ohel of the Chozeh of Lublin

Old Jewish cemetery, on the hill between ulica Kalinowszczyzna and ulica Sienna, Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

• IT IS NOT OPEN TO WALK INTO. The old cemetery is kept locked and is opened for arranged visits rather than to whoever arrives. The Lublin branch of the Warsaw Jewish community is the address for it — ulica Lubartowska 85, telephone +48 501 667 810. Arrange it before you build a day around it.
• IT IS THE OLDEST JEWISH CEMETERY LEFT IN POLAND, in use from the sixteenth century, on a loess hill between Kalinowszczyzna and Sienna that had been a medieval fortress before it was a burial ground. Its brick and stone wall dates from the seventeenth century.
• ABOUT TWO HUNDRED MATZEVOS AND FRAGMENTS SURVIVE on a ground that buried Lublin for three hundred years. Conservation work was done on the stones in 2018, so what you see has been tended rather than merely left.
• SURVEYED COORDINATES. The map point on this listing is the cemetery itself, measured on the ground by the ESJF survey — not a town centre. Where a kever is inside an ohel it will still need finding once you are through the gate, but the gate is now something you can navigate to.