Old Jewish cemetery Velbert-Mitte
The Jewish cemetery Velbert is a Jewish cemetery in the city of Velbert in the Mettmann district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is located on the north park .
history
It was not until after 1800, during the time of the Grand Duchy of Berg , that a continuous Jewish settlement emerged in Velbert, which in the 19th century belonged to the Elberfeld synagogue community . The size of the community - favored by the influx and the settlement of many "Eastern Jews" after the First World War - was 16 in 1824, 40 in 1885 and 62 in 1932. The synagogue in Werden or Langenberg was first visited, but around 1835 the existence of a prayer room is documented. Due to the Nazi takeover, a planned new building could not be realized. The cemetery was laid out in the 19th century, occupied from 1817 to 1938 and sold in 1940. The burial place at the Nordpark has been preserved. There are no more tombstones here, some of them were used to build barracks and some of them were also erected on the cemetery wall of the Elberfeld cemetery on Weißenburgstrasse . Instead there is a memorial stone on the year-round locked cemetery area.
literature
- Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2
- Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part II. Administrative region of Düsseldorf . Cologne 2000, pp. 413–415 (articles on architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.2)
Web links
- Entry on the Jewish cemetery at Nordpark in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
- Velbert. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '2.6 " N , 7 ° 3' 18.7" E