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The origins of the Jewish community in Břeclav can be reliably dated to the 16th century, when several historical sources already mention a Jewish religious community with a synagogue.
At the end of the 19th century, with the rapid growth of the Jewish community in Břeclav, the cemetery complex became insufficient. Additional land was therefore purchased from Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein, with the financial support of the brothers Hermann and Jacob Kuffner. The original mortuary building was demolished, and the entire cemetery area was newly enclosed by a wall made of exposed brick and glazed ceramic elements produced by the Liechtenstein ceramics factory in Poštorná. The dominant feature of the Jewish burial complex became the Neo-Gothic ceremonial hall. The project was designed by the Austrian architect Franz von Neumann Jr., and the main patron was Moritz Kuffner.
The ceremonial hall is a single-storey hall building with a gabled roof and a front gable. The interior is dominated by a pseudo-Gothic ribbed vault with historicist decoration. After the Second World War, the building was used as a warehouse for upholstery and drugstore goods, and its deteriorating condition required at least a basic roof repair in the 1990s.
In 2023, the city of Břeclav carried out an extensive restoration of the building with an emphasis on preserving and restoring its individual architectural elements and surfaces. This particularly concerned the interior stucco work of the valuable ribbed vault and the polygonal vault ribs with bases and capitals decorated with acanthus motifs. Based on fragments of the original historicist painting, the wall sgraffito rustication, Old Testament inscriptions in Hebrew and German, and the decoration of the niche on the eastern side of the building were restored. A valuable example of the production of the Liechtenstein ceramics factory from the late 19th century is also the ceramic floor tiling, preserved in an almost original state.
For visitors, the interior houses a permanent exhibition dedicated to the history of the Jewish community in Břeclav and the burial complex, and it commemorates the victims of the Holocaust from Břeclav. The building is also used for music and literary performances as well as lectures.
It is necessary to contact the LVHF customer service for barrier-free entrance 
Parking: on the street Sladová (paid)
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