at-Tur (Jerusalem)

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The village of At-Tur on top of the Mount of Olives
Street scene in At-Tur

At-Tur ( Arabic الطور, DMG at-ṭūr ) is a district of East Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives about one kilometer east of the Old City of Jerusalem with a predominantly Palestinian population. Today around 18,000 people live in At-Tur, mostly Muslims and a small Christian minority .

history

In 1596 the village appeared as Tur Zayta in the tax records of the Ottoman Nahiya Al-Quds . The administrative unit had a population of 48 Muslim households and eight single people and paid taxes on wheat, barley, wine or fruit and goats or beehives.

The Paternoster Church

By 1870 the Ottoman Village Register recorded 38 houses and a population of 127, counting only the men. In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund described At-Tur in the Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) as a dingy little village on the crest of the Mount of Olives . The houses are made of stone, but they are low and small.

In 1945 the population of Et-Tur was 2770, 86% Muslim and 14% Christian. According to an official land and population survey, they owned 8,800 dunams . Of these, 228 dunams were irrigated plantations, 2838 dunams were grain and 86 dunams were cultivated.

According to the 1947 UN partition plan for Palestine , At-Tur should belong to the Corpus Separatum Jerusalem , which should be administered internationally. Through the conquest in the war for Israel's independence in 1948/1949 at-Tur came to Jordan like most of the area of ​​the Corpus Separatum, the inhabitants became Jordanians. Israel captured at-Tur in 1967 and annexed it with all of East Jerusalem through the Jerusalem Law in 1980 . Since 1988, Jordan has been gradually withdrawing its Jordanian citizenship from local residents throughout the West Bank, including at-Tur.

Attractions

The Ascension Chapel is located in At-Tur . It is part of a larger complex that includes a church, a monastery and a mosque. In the place of the chapel, Jesus is said to have ascended to heaven forty days after his resurrection.

Other sights include the Auguste Viktoria Hospital , the Paternoster Church and the Seven Arches Hotel.

Personalities born in At-Tur

Web links

Commons : At-Tur  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 118
  2. ^ Socin, 1879, p. 162
  3. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 30th
  4. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25th
  5. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58
  6. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 104
  7. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945 ; quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 154

Coordinates: 31 ° 46 ′ 47 "  N , 35 ° 14 ′ 32"  E