Jewish cemetery (Bad Breisig)
The Jewish cemetery in Bad Breisig in the Ahrweiler district in the north-west of Rhineland-Palatinate is a small cemetery that was laid out in 1878. It is a protected cultural monument .
The Jewish cemetery of Breisig is located north of the village at the foot of the Kesselberg . In 1832, the Bonn university professor and later Prussian minister of culture, Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg , acquired Rheineck Castle , on whose property the old Jewish cemetery was located. He then left the old Jewish cemetery for almost half a century and allowed burials to continue. It was not until 1876 that he suggested that future burials be carried out in a new and more accessible cemetery. For the purchase he offered 150 marks as a gift to purchase the required area. The Jewish community accepted this suggestion and had the new cemetery built, which was first occupied in 1878. Today there are only about ten tombstones left in the 5.74- acre cemetery .
The last burial documented by a tombstone took place in 1925. A later burial, documented by contemporary witnesses, was that of Adolf Feit from Oberbreisig on March 4, 1939. Albert Feit and his wife Helene fled to the anonymity of Cologne - which did not save them. Adolf Feit committed suicide. A small group of Jewish friends buried him without any plaque or marking of the grave site. The Kindler company delivered the coffin.
literature
- Carl Bertam Hommen: Bad Breisig . In: Hans Warnecke (Hrsg.): Evidence of Jewish life in the Ahrweiler district . ARE-Buchhandlung, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1998, ISBN 3-929154-23-4 , pp. 37-42.
Web links
- Bad Breisig Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Bad Breisig Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
Ahrweiler | Bad Breisig | Bad Neuenahr | Dernau | Gelsdorf | Koenigsfeld | Niederzissen | Remagen | Rheineck | Sinzig
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 59.2 ″ N , 7 ° 17 ′ 18.2 ″ E