Jewish cemetery (Kaisersesch)
The Jüdische Friedhof Kaisersesch is a Jewish cemetery in Kaisersesch , a town in the district of Cochem-Zell in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is a protected cultural monument .
location
The Jewish cemetery, difficult to find for visitors due to the lack of signage, is located south of the city on the eastern continuation of Pommerbachstrasse on a slope between Pommerbachstrasse and Landesstrasse L 98. The cemetery is surrounded by a hornbeam hedge .
history
Jews have probably settled in Kaisersesch since the middle of the 19th century. In the 1930s, Düngenheim , Hambuch , Illerich and Müllenbach also belonged to the Kaisersesch synagogue community . The size of the Jewish community was 31 in 1885, 29 in 1925, 50 in 1932 and 27 in 1939. It is not known when the local synagogue was occupied. In 1938 the prayer house was devastated and later converted into a residential building. The community's dead were first buried in the Jewish cemetery in Binningen . In 1920 the Jewish community of Kaisersesch applied to have its own burial site. For this purpose, a 9.74 acres of land was acquired in corridor 11 No. 559 . The cemetery was occupied from 1920 to 1942 and today there are still 18 gravestones (mazewot) in two rows of nine each, some of which are located on multiple graves .
The cemetery was desecrated several times during the National Socialist era and thereafter, most recently in 1994. In November 2011, almost half of the tombstones fell over and were partly broken next to the grave sites. The cause of the damage is unclear. The damage was taken as an opportunity by the Kaisersesch community to thoroughly renovate the grave complex in spring 2012.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ).
- Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century (= Historical Atlas of the Rhineland . Volume VIII.8 ). Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 , pp. 53 .
Web links
- To the Jewish cemetery Kaisersesch near Alemannia Judaica
- Jewish cemetery Kaisersesch at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- Entry on the Jewish cemetery “on the Klopp” in Kaisersesch (Jewish cemetery “on Hantebach”) in the database “ KuLaDig ” of the Rhineland Regional Association
- Entry on synagogue Kaisersesch (prayer house "Judenschule", today residential building) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Jewish cemetery "on the Klopp" in Kaisersesch (Jewish cemetery "on Hantebach") in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on July 20, 2017.
- ^ Otmar Frühauf: Kaisersesch (VG Kaisersesch, Cochem-Zell district). Alemannia-Judaica.de, April 28, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2017 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 33 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 29.5 ″ E