Jewish cemetery (Alps)

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The Jewish cemetery in the municipality of Alpen in the Wesel district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) is on Ulrichstrasse. It is largely preserved.

history

The first recorded Jewish believer in the Alps was David Abraham, who moved here in 1714. With the beginning of religious freedom in the French era , 17 Jewish families lived in the Alps. The local synagogue community had also been affiliated with the faithful in Büderich , Rheinberg , Orsoy , Kamp , Vierquartieren, Hoerstgen and Rheurdt since 1858 . The size of the community was 59 in 1806, 53 in 1824, 72 in 1885 and 31 in 1932. During the Nazi period , 13 people were deported and murdered, 19 were able to emigrate, one person “perished” (without further explanation) and only 5 died in a “normal” way. A synagogue is first mentioned in 1801, it was used until it was destroyed in 1938 during the November pogroms .

A new wooden sign on Ulrichstrasse with a menorah and two stars of David indicates the cemetery , which is about 400 meters to the north of Alpen . The burial place has old trees and is surrounded by a hedge. An artistically designed bronze gate was stolen by metal thieves in October 2012 .

56 tombstones from the period from 1792 to 1936 are still preserved. Samuel Meyer from Alpen was the last to be buried here in 1939.

literature

  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Cologne district . Cologne 1997, pp. 587-588 (contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.1), ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 .
  • Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007, p. 23 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 .
  • Peter Schmitter: History of the Alps Jews . Alpen 1986, p. 147 (documents from the beginning of the Alps to the path of suffering in the Nazi era), ISBN 3-9801378-0-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to a private website with pictures referring to the Alpine Lexicon by Dieter Schauenberg (2005)

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 59 ″  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 25 ″  E