Jewish cemetery (Bad Salzuflen)

Memorial at the Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery is located in the town of Bad Salzuflen in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Lippe in Germany .

description

The Jewish cemetery is located between Werler Strasse and Schießhofstrasse (formerly "Auf der Clues" and "Vor dem Herford Thore"). It was first mentioned in a document in 1607 as the “Judenkirchhof”, making it one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Lippe. Presumably it was laid out in the middle of the 16th century. In 1855 it was enlarged. Until 1877 the cemetery also served as a burial place for the Jews from Schötmar . Salomon Silberbach, who died on March 31, 1939, is the last Jew to be buried in the cemetery.

During the Nazi era , the cemetery grounds were acquired by a Bad Salzufler merchant in 1941 and the cemetery complex was continuously destroyed until 1945. Most of the tombstones ( mazewot ) were cleared and disposed of in a nearby sand pit. After 1945 the area was partly built over by its new owner with a commercially used hall, the last remaining 24 tombstones were erected on the edge of the area.

In 1987 the cemetery area was acquired by the city of Bad Salzuflen. This had the hall built on it demolished, the site redesigned in 1988 and a memorial erected.

The cemetery is registered with the number 148 as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Bad Salzuflen .

memorial

Since 1988 a memorial stone made of red Weser sandstone by the stonemason Klaus Görder has been commemorating the 63 Holocaust victims of the former Jewish communities of Bad Salzuflen and Schötmar.

On the stone in the form of a seven-armed candlestick ( menorah ) is the inscription:

“In memory of the Jewish citizens from Bad Salzuflen and Schötmar, who were victims of the National Socialist dictatorship between 1933 and 1945.
The suffering and injustice inflicted on them must not be forgotten.
^(x) .ת. נ. צ. ב. ה. "

(The names of the 63 victims follow).

^(x) "Te'hi Nischmató zrurá Bi'zrór Ha'Chajim" ( Hebrew ), d. h .: "May their souls be included in the bond of life".

literature

• Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia . Part III: Detmold administrative district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 1.1), Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , pp. 282–283, 342.
• Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 , p. 89.
• Franz Meyer (Ed.): Bad Salzuflen - Epochs of City History . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89534-606-4 .

Web links

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

• Salzuflen 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.
• Bad Salzuflen In: From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area , (www.jüdische-gemeinden.de).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Meyer (Ed.): Bad Salzuflen-Epochs of the city history. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2006, p. 97
2. ↑ Bad Salzuflen, Werler Strasse ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. In: memorials and memorials in Lippe  

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '5 "  N , 8 ° 44' 27.9"  E