Worms, Old Jewish Cemetery “Heiliger Sand”, Martin-Buber-View

The view axis across the older part of the old Jewish cemetery “Heiliger Sand” to the imperial Cathedral is called Martin Buber View. Martin Buber, a German-Jewish philosopher, reflected in a text about his conversation with the Protestant theologian Karl Ludwig Schmidt who rejected the covenant of the Jewish people with God because of the New Testament. Buber visited the Worms Jewish cemetery and contrasted the Romanesque cathedral with its harmony with the Jewish cemetery of ”crooked, shattered, directionless stones”, through which he felt close to his ancestors. Buber: “The covenant has ... not been revoked”. This visual axis is part of the UNESCO World heritage of ShUM.