Jewish cemetery (Giesenkirchen)
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The Jewish cemetery located in the district Giesenkirchen in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), Konstantin road.
The cemetery was laid out in 1882. It was entered under No. K 094 on July 31, 2008 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
The Jewish cemetery is located on the eastern edge of Giesenkirchen on the Dycker Schelsen in the gusset between Konstantinstrasse and Mülforter Strasse.
architecture
The small, greened burial area of only 474 m² is accessible through a modern entrance from Konstantinstraße. Nine tombstones ( mazewot ) have been preserved along the outer borders , which in terms of design and use of materials correspond to the traditional customs at the time of their creation. The oldest gravestone dates from 1882, the youngest from 1902. The two grave monuments of the brothers Seligmann and Juda Emanuel, who died and were buried in 1898 and 1900, clearly tower above the other gravestones as marble columns .
The object is important for human history. There are scientific, in particular local, religious and sepulkral historical reasons for its preservation and use.
literature
- Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
swell
- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Web links
- Odenkirchen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 17.1 ″ N , 6 ° 30 ′ 14 ″ E