Jewish cemetery (Illingen)
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The Jewish cemetery Illingen is a Jewish cemetery in Illingen in the Neunkirchen district in Saarland . It is a monument .
description
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On the cemetery Heister Street / Raßweilerweg about 180 intact are grave stones preserved. It is surrounded by a wall on which the remains of the portal of the former synagogue were located until the end of the 1990s .
history
The cemetery, established in 1747, was enlarged in 1905 and 1923. The dead of the Jewish communities Neunkirchen and Ottweiler were also buried here until 1831. The cemetery was destroyed in the Nazi era in 1938 , the stones were cleared in 1939 and the site was bought by the political community. In 1949 the cemetery was largely restored. The memorial erected in the same year bears the inscription: The synagogue community Illingen, its destroyed church, its dead and victims of violence as an honorable memory! Erected by the Illingen civil parish - Saar synagogue parish in 1949 .
literature
- Otto Nauhauser: The Jewish community in Illingen. Ed .: Municipality of Illingen, Illingen 1980.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Neunkirchen district ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . PDF, 120 kB
Web links
- Illingen (Neunkirchen district, Saarland) Jewish cemetery on alemannia-judaica.de
- Jewish cemeteries in Saarland
- Illingen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Saarland (editor: Felicitas Grützmann)
- Digital Edition - Illingen Jewish Cemetery (1761–1933 / 240 entries) at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 39.8 ″ N , 7 ° 3 ′ 37 ″ E
