Jewish cemetery (Alverdissen)

The two gravestones of the cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Alverdissen , a district of Barntrup in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia , was probably built in the 18th century. The Jewish cemetery is a protected architectural monument .

history

The exact origin of the cemetery on Südhagen is not known. The founder of the Arensberg Foundation , whose proceeds went to the Jewish and Christian poor, was buried in the cemetery in 1893. The United Arensberg Foundations still existed in 1935/36. At this point in time, according to Moritz Rülf, “the very old cemetery was in good condition”. Alverdissen's synagogue, which had not been used for decades and had been in disrepair, had already been demolished two years earlier on behalf of the only Jew Gustav Arensberg living there. Gustav Arensberg laid out a garden on the site of the former synagogue, which he rounded off by purchasing 20 m² in 1935/1936. Both this garden and the cemetery were owned by the Jewish community at the time. In 1937 the synagogue communities Alverdissen and Silixen came to Bösingfeld. The cemetery was occupied until 1942. Today there are only two tombstones ( mazewot ) left.

literature

• Jürgen Hartmann: The memorandum of the Detmold teacher and preacher Moritz Rülf on the synagogues and cemeteries in Lippe 1936/37 (PDF; 1.1 MB), in the e-publication Rosenland Lippe 9/2009, pp. 20–38.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alverdissen. 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. ↑ Hartmann, 2009, pp. 31–32
2. ↑ Hartmann, 2009, p. 24

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 51.4 ″  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 19.6 ″  E