Jewish cemetery (Bad Neuenahr)

Bad Neuenahr Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery established in 1894/95 in the Bad Neuenahr district of Ahrweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is a protected cultural monument .

The Jewish community of Neuenahr was not officially constituted until 1896, although 37 Jewish citizens were already living in the town in 1858 and their number was steadily increasing. Jewish church services have been held for decades and the application for the establishment of a Jewish cemetery was made as early as 1893. The cemetery is located on the Johannisberg , on a 719 m² plot of land sloping to the north. There are still 42 tombstones in total, laid out in rows, but not documented in chronological order. The first burial took place in 1900 and the last in 1953. The cemetery remained essentially undamaged during the Nazi era .

Tahara house

The Tahara House , built in 1908, stands in the middle of the cemetery and on an axis with the cemetery entrance. The 4.1 m by 5.8 m building has a door on the front and back with a horseshoe arched window . It faces north and there is a window with a horseshoe arch on the west and east sides. The morgue is made of bricks and the windows, doors, the gable and the corners of the building are emphasized by protruding bricks. The two interior rooms were separated by a door and are vaulted by a longitudinal barrel.

On the west side of the Tahara House there is now a memorial plaque for the victims of the National Socialist persecution of the Jews .

literature

Annemarie Müller-Feldmann, Astrid Lohmiller: The Jewish cemetery in Bad Neuenahr . In: Hans Warnecke (Hrsg.): Evidence of Jewish life in the Ahrweiler district . ARE bookstore, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1998, ISBN 3-929154-23-4 , pp. 101–111.

Web links

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

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