Jewish cemetery (Andernach)

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Gate to the cemetery
Jewish cemetery in Andernach
Double grave in the Jewish cemetery in Andernach

The Jewish cemetery Andernach is a Jewish cemetery in Andernach , a town in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument and is located next to the municipal cemetery on Koblenzer Straße.

history

An old Jewish cemetery is mentioned in a document in Andernach in 1334 . This cemetery can no longer be located today because the Jews were expelled from Andernach in 1596 .

Only in the middle of the 19th century Jews settled in Andernach again. The Jewish community of Andernach initially buried its dead in the Jewish cemetery in Miesenheim . In the 1870s, a separate Jewish cemetery, with an area of ​​13.44 acres , was created right next to the city cemetery. Today there are 73 tombstones ( mazewot ) and the last burial took place in 1999.

The inscription on the plaque in the entrance area reads: As a warning to the living! In memory of our Jewish fellow citizens who were persecuted, tormented and murdered by state tyranny in the years 1933-1945 .

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
  • Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: Synagogues Rhineland-Palatinate - Saarland. "... and this is the gate of heaven" (= memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. 2). Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , pp. 78-79.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Andernach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 8.5 ″  N , 7 ° 25 ′ 18.5 ″  E