Mistelbach Graveyard Schematic
Mistelbach is a larger, but younger, town near Laa/Thaya. Since Laa did not have a Jewish cemetery of its own, Jews from Laa were often buried in Mistelbach.
The Jewish cemetery of Mistelbach is divided into two halves by a large path running up the middle of the cemetery from the entrance all the way through the the back. Two thirds of the way up the main path, a lesser path crosses it. To the right and the left before the crossing are children's graves, many of which Lena and I worked on in 1997. Beyond the intersection, and to the left is a roughly square region with densely packed, fairly regular rows. The the right, on the other hand, there are two large bushes which partially obscure view of the plots. Some graves on this side are also missing their stones.
Below is a schematic, simplified, map of the cemetery. It is designed to make it easy to refer to any specific plot and, given the refernce, find the plot again.
The referencing system used on the map should be fairly self-explanatory. "R" and "L" refer, to right and left. 4R2, refers to the second stone to the right of the path in the fourth row. A designation without a row prefix (such as R5) refers to a stone that is not in a row, but rather along the right (or in the case of L2, left) side of the cemetery.
Special thanks to Benjamin Smith-Mannschott for drawing the schematic.