Jewish cemetery (Vallendar)

The Jewish cemetery in Vallendar , a town in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate , was laid out after the First World War. The Jewish cemetery on the Kirchhohl 2 property is a protected cultural monument . Strangely enough, there is a single-family house on the site of the cemetery, which was built after 1945. The entrance gate to the property is open and the two parts of the cemetery are separated from the rest of the property by a hedge.

Old part of the Jewish cemetery in Vallendar, behind the tombstones you can see the gate to the property
New part of the cemetery
Gravestone for Leopold Scheye

history

Vallendar already had around 50 Jewish residents in the 18th century, and their number continued to grow, especially from 1820 onwards. The Jewish inhabitants living in Mallendar and Niederwerth also belonged to the Jewish community. The size of the Jewish community was 81 in 1822, 174 in 1885 and 125 in 1932. For 1938 there are still 15 families recorded, for 1942 41 people. A prayer room is already occupied around 1800 and the new synagogue was inaugurated in 1857 ; it was destroyed in 1938.

The Vallendar Jews buried their dead beforehand in the Jewish cemetery in Weitersburg , which is only about 500 meters away as the crow flies. There are still around 24 tombstones ( Mazewot ) in the Vallendar cemetery today . The first burial took place in 1920, the last probably in 1940 (Leopold Scheye, died on February 9, 1940).

literature

Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century (= Historical Atlas of the Rhineland . Suppl. 8, 8 = Publications of the Society for Rhenish History. Dept. 12, NF 1b, Lfg. 10). Habelt, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 , p. 87.

Web links

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