Jewish cemetery (Minden)

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Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Minden

The Jewish cemetery is located in the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden in the Minden-Lübbecke district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in the southern part of the city and belongs to the cemetery administration of the city of Minden. The cemetery is managed by the Jewish community of Minden.

history

Until the plague pogrom on July 21, 1350, there was a first burial site for members of the Jewish community in Minden, the Jewish cemetery in front of the Simeon Gate. He has disappeared from the cityscape. After the cemetery in front of the Simeon Gate, which was probably occupied until the beginning of the 14th century, there were two other Jewish cemeteries from the 18th century. A larger cemetery was to the northwest and a smaller one to the northeast of the Marientore. The Jewish community in Minden was able to bury their dead here until around 1820. After the Jewish cemeteries of Minden had to give way to the expansion of the city ​​fortifications , subsequent burials were only carried out in the Jewish cemetery in Hausberge . Both burials from the Jewish community in Hausberge and from Minden were carried out here. The grave fields were spatially separated from each other. In 1895 the Jewish community in Minden purchased a 5000 square meter property. The Minden community thus had its own cemetery again, the cemetery on Erikaweg, which is still in use today. There are over 100 tombstones ( mazewot ) here.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Minden, Erikaweg In: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Editor: Claudia Pohl.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minden (medieval cemetery)
  2. ^ Jewish community life since the Middle Ages , accessed on March 16, 2016
  3. ↑ Minden (Marientor)
  4. ↑ Karl-Wilhelm Röhs: The cemetery of the Mindener Jews at the Porta Westfalica . In: Der Minden - Ravensberger, 63, Bielefeld 1991
  5. ^ Jewish community life since the Middle Ages , accessed on March 16, 2016.
  6. ↑ Remembering places: Traces of the Nazi era in Minden-Lübbecke ( memento from March 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on March 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Minden (Erikaweg)

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 23.8 "  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 51"  E d