Jewish cemetery (Bad Honnef)
The Jewish cemetery Bad Honnef is located in the Selhof district of the city of Bad Honnef in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is located at the northeastern and upper end of the district at about 115 m above sea level. NHN with the address Auf der Helte 29b. The cemetery stands as a monument under monument protection .
history
The Jewish cemetery , the oldest surviving burial place in the city, was occupied from 1666 by the Jews from Honnef, Rheinbreitbach and Unkel . It probably replaced a cemetery at Cleverhof, which was abandoned in the same year, in the immediate vicinity of the parish church of St. Johann Baptist and the then Catholic cemetery. There was probably another Jewish cemetery in Rommersdorf . It was not until 1851 that the cemetery became the property of the Honnef Jewish community . The burial site was expanded shortly after 1851 as well as in 1884/85, 1888 and for the last time in 1907. During the time of Honnef as a spa and bathing town, a third of the Jewish spa guests who died during their stay were here in addition to the members of the Jewish community Buried in Germany and abroad, especially at the Hohenhonnef Lung Clinic . After 1870 no more Jews from Rheinbreitbach and Unkel were buried in the cemetery. The last occupancy took place in 1947.
The cemetery became the property of the Jewish Trust Corporation (JTC) in the 1950s and has been owned by the State Association of the Jewish Communities of North Rhine since the early 1960s . The city has taken over his entertainment. The cemetery was entered in the monuments list of the city of Bad Honnef on July 8, 1986.
description
A total of about 150 graves have been found in the cemetery, 84 of which still have tombstones ( mazewot ). It is divided into an older part on the left and a younger part on the right of the main path. The tombstones face east on the former and west on the latter. The cemetery is characterized by its tall trees of life . At the end of the main path there is a memorial stele erected by the city of Bad Honnef in November 1968 on a decision by the city council , on which the mayor and city council commemorate every year on the day of national memorial .
literature
- Adolf Nekum : Honnef's children of Israel: traces and testimonies of Jewish life in and around Bad Honnef. A family, societal, social and religious history documentation. (= Homeland and History Association “Herrschaft Löwenburg” Bad Honnef eV : Studies on the local history of the city of Bad Honnef am Rhein , issue 7) Bad Honnef 1988, pp. 106–118.
- Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century. In: Geschichtlicher Atlas der Rheinlande , VIII.8, Bonn 2007, pp. 25–26.
- Heinz Firmenich (revised by Karl Günter Werber ): City of Bad Honnef (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz : Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 12). 3rd, revised edition, Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1987, ISBN 3-88094-541-1 , pp. 18/19.
- Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition, Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , pp. 87/88.
Web links
- Bad Honnef Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- Entry on Selhof Jewish cemetery in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 82
- ↑ a b c d e f g Adolf Nekum: Honnefs Kinder Israels: Traces and testimonies of Jewish life in and around Bad Honnef. A family, societal, social and religious history documentation.
- ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 643 . (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007)
- ↑ 22 memorials in the city . In: Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau . June 8, 2002.
- ^ Initiative applies for restoration and relocation , General-Anzeiger , September 5, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 24.3 " N , 7 ° 14 ′ 38.9" E
