Jewish cemetery (Oerlinghausen)

Jewish cemetery in Oerlinghausen

The Oerlinghausen Jewish Cemetery is located in Oerlinghausen , a town in the Lippe region in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia . The cemetery is located on the western slope of the Tönsberg on Kammweg and is entered in the municipal list of monuments with the number 33 as an architectural monument .

The Jewish cemetery in Oerlinghausen is 673 m². It was first mentioned before 1761 and was probably used earlier. Today there are 61 tombstones ( mazewot ). The oldest surviving tombstone is that of Channa Mei'ir, who died on October 29, 1761. The last burial took place in 1942.

In the cemetery there is a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War , at whose inauguration in 1920 Moritz Rülf gave the sermon. During his visit to the cemetery in 1935/36, Rülf noted that the old stones were quite weathered, but that the cemetery was otherwise kept in good order.

literature

Michael Brocke, Aubrey Pomerance: The Jewish cemetery in Oerlinghausen. A visual and textual documentation. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1993, ISBN 3-927085-69-3 . [not evaluated]
Jürgen Hartmann: The memorandum of the Detmold teacher and preacher Moritz Rülf on the synagogues and cemeteries in Lippe 1936/37 (PDF; 1.1 MB), in the e-publication Rosenland Lippe 9/2009, pp. 20–38.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Oerlinghausen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: North Rhine-Westphalia ; Version: December 2002

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Elfi splendor : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part III: Detmold administrative district (= contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 1.1 ). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , p. 337 .
↑ Silent witnesses of history , article in the Neue Westfälische on November 9, 2010.
↑ Hartmann, 2009, p. 27

51.958838 8.660113Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 31.8 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 36.4" E

[Pracht-1] A ^b Elfi splendor : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part III: Detmold administrative district (= contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 1.1 ). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , p. 337 .

[2] Silent witnesses of history , article in the Neue Westfälische on November 9, 2010.

[3] Hartmann, 2009, p. 27