Old Jewish cemetery Steinheim

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The old Jewish cemetery Steinheim was the cemetery for the inhabitants of the Jewish faith in Groß-Steinheim , today the city of Hanau in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse . It was used until 1892, after which the New Jewish Cemetery Steinheim took over its function.

View from the southeast 2015

Geographical location

The old Jewish cemetery is on the corner of Darmstädter Strasse and Dalbergstrasse . It was outside the old town of Groß-Steinheim on one of the arterial roads. It is surrounded by residential developments.

history

The information on the establishment of the cemetery varies between the 14th century, the 17th / 18th century. Century and the year 1799. The catchment area of ​​the cemetery extended over the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Groß-Steinheim, Klein-Steinheim (both places were merged in 1938), Klein-Auheim , Hainstadt to Dietesheim . The Jewish communities of Mühlheim , Weiskirchen , Nieder- and Ober-Roden also used it as an association cemetery.

The cemetery was closed in 1892 due to full occupancy. Before that, there had already been tensions between the city administration and the Jewish community when the residential development neared the cemetery. At the end of 1892 the New Jewish Cemetery in Steinheim was laid out and inaugurated.

Tensions arose again from 1914 and in the 1920s when the city wanted to expand Bülowstrasse , today's Dalbergstrasse, at the expense of the cemetery. After three expropriation applications failed in the 1920s, this finally happened immediately at the beginning of the Nazi era in the years 1933–35. The decision to do so was taken at the first municipal council meeting after the municipal council election in May 1933 at the request of the NSDAP . The Jewish community was forced to exhume the bodies under the direction of the teacher Oppenheimer and to bring them to the New Jewish Cemetery. Some older stones with dates from 1871 onwards were placed along the south wall. The old cemetery was converted into a green area and the structural traces removed. In addition, in 1939, according to other information as early as 1936, the war memorial originally erected at Steinheimer Obertor in 1902 for the fallen in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71 was erected in the facility, which is still in place today.

investment

Serious attempts have only been made since 2008 to alleviate the consequences of the desecration of the cemetery during the Nazi era. A boulder with a memorial inscription and a detailed plaque on the history of the place were set up on the site. The entrance, which is open to Darmstädter Straße , was provided with an iron gate bearing two stars of David. The initiative came from the Steinheim Round Table . The war memorial was also renovated, for which no other place could be found in Steinheim so far.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnsberg 1972, p. 298.
  2. ^ Alemannia judaica
  3. ↑ Notice board on the system
  4. ↑ Bus 2008.
  5. ↑ Notice board on the system
  6. ↑ Notice board on the system
  7. ↑ Krumm 2006, p. 391.
  8. ↑ Krumm 2006, p. 371, notice board attached
  9. ^ Alemannia judaica
  10. ^ Jewish cemetery in Steinheim - A gate with a star of David Frankfurter Rundschau from July 30, 2013.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 18.8 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 35 ″  E