Jewish community Düren
The Jewish community of Düren in Düren ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) was mentioned as early as 1241/42 . Rabbi Isaak ben Meïr from Düren is also mentioned in the 13th century .
After the destruction of the community at the time of the plague pogrom , Jews settled again before 1370, in 1404 at least eight families lived in the city. Already before 1600 they had set up a "Juddenschol vf dem Vehmarkt". Several families were escorted during the 17th and 18th centuries . After the Prussian-Jewish law of 1847 was synagogue district Düren created.
The synagogue community numbered around 400 people in the early 1930s. It was administered by the board of directors, consisting of three members and twelve representatives. The chairman of the synagogue board was Hermann Löwenstein. Teacher, preacher and Rendant was Max Oppenheim . The service was on Saturday mornings at 9 a.m. There was also a Jewish youth association with over 100 members and the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith with 60 members.
To this day there are two Jewish cemeteries in Düren , the old and the new cemetery .
See also
literature
- Hans J. Domsta (ed.): The "Reichskristallnacht" in Düren. Diary entries of an eyewitness [Lambert Derichs]. In: DGBl. 74, 1985, pp. 61-70
- Konrad Repgen: A Belgian eyewitness to the pogroms against the Jews in Cologne in November 1938. In: Festgabe Heinz Hürten for his 60th birthday, hrgg. by Harald Dickerhoff, Frankfurt am Main 1988, p. 409
- Naor / Robrock, p. 65;
- Domsta / Krebs / Krobb: Timeline, p. 205
- Alexander Mainz: A bourgeois life. Erzählung, Aachen 1979, pp. 124–125. 1939
- Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, Vol. 36, 1872, No. 43 of October 22, 1872, pp. 851–852
- Put fire on your sanctuary. Destroyed synagogues in 1938 North Rhine-Westphalia, Bochum 1999, pp. 126–128