Jewish cemeteries (Aplerbeck)
Two Jewish cemeteries have been since the mid-19th century in the district Aplerbeck the city of Dortmund furnished.
Old graveyard
The 325 m² cemetery is located on Schweizer Allee, near Canarisstraße (location) . There is no reliable data about its opening. A stone, mainly inscribed in Hebrew, is dated February 11, 1855. There are a total of 26 gravestones .
In 1926 this cemetery was closed. The birch-covered and grassy area, originally enclosed with a wooden fence, is now enclosed with a metal mesh fence. The tombstones show traces of destruction and are partially overgrown.
The cemetery is registered as an architectural monument in the monument list of the city of Dortmund .
Municipal cemetery
The cemetery is located in the north-eastern part of the municipal cemetery on Köln-Berliner Straße (Lage) . The 200 m² site is not separated from the Christian part.
In 2001 there were 18 tombstones in the cemetery. The oldest surviving one comes from Ida Rosenthal, who died on December 4, 1905, and the youngest from Sally Sternheim († January 16, 1939).
Before that, Salomon Löwenstein, who died on October 23, 1903, had been buried, and lastly Rosa Herzberg, born on November 14, 1939, had been buried . Solomon .
The 18 tombs of the Jewish department, together with other parts of the Aplerbeck municipal cemetery, are listed as architectural monuments in the monuments list of the city of Dortmund.
literature
- Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe . the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 .
Web links
- Dortmund-Aplerbeck. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Special burial fields in Dortmund
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b No. A 0157 and A 1002. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 17, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The burial register of the community of Aplerbeck (1896-1920), accessed on December 30, 2013. digital
- ^ Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part V: Arnsberg district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 1.3 ) JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1449-7 , p. 102.
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