Jewish cemetery (Odenkirchen)
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The Jewish cemetery located in the district Odenkirchen in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), Kamp Hausener road.
The cemetery was laid out in 1840. It was entered under No. K 064 on June 3, 1993 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
The Jewish cemetery is in the lower part of Kamphausener Straße. Due to the rising relief, it is hardly visible from the street.
architecture
The cemetery is divided into two parts. On the older, southern part of the area, which was laid out between around 1840 and the 1880s, there are twelve tombstones ( mazewot ), the inscriptions of which are identifiable, and a further six tombstones with illegible inscriptions. The monuments follow uniform stylistic features and are characterized by high rectangular shapes with triangular gable, wavy gable or hipped roof-shaped ends .
The tombstones are made of a brownish sandstone - e.g. B. mostly probably Ruhr sandstone - carved. The inscription panels, often made of a different material - e.g. B. Marble - made and sunk into the tombstones, bear Hebrew inscriptions. Only the names and dates of life of the deceased are written in Latin script.
The younger part of the area to the north was occupied from around 1890. It includes 50 graves, the tombstones of which have less uniform shapes. While the traditional stone shapes and formats were initially set up, from around 1904/1905 low monuments, tall and narrow steles , slabs, etc. Ä. before. With the change in the design of the tombstones, there is also a change in the material, because now people like to switch to dark, basic, igneous hard rocks, e.g. T. with polished surfaces. The proportion of Hebrew inscriptions is clearly decreasing and is limited to the formulas:
po nikba - "Here rests"
tanzeba - "His / her soul is tied into the bundle of eternal life"
Grave borders are common and the grave sites are covered with white pebbles. The object is important for human history and for cities and settlements . There is a public interest in its preservation and use for artistic, scientific and ethnological reasons. The cemetery is worth protecting as a monument for reasons of local history, social history and art history .
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 ° 8 ′ 6 ″ N , 6 ° 27 ′ 18.7 ″ E