Jewish cemetery (Bielefeld)
The Jewish cemetery is a cemetery in Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia . The sponsor is the Bielefeld Jewish Community . It is a listed building as a whole and still serves as a burial place for the Jewish community today.
Location and history
The cemetery is located in the Gadderbaum district in the immediate vicinity of the Johannisfriedhof on the slope of the Kahler Berg and can be reached via the road.
The Jewish cemetery was created in 1891 as a replacement for the burial site on Bolbrinkersweg, which had become too small. This was already heavily documented around 1880, which prompted reform Jews to look for graves in communal cemeteries. An extension on Bolbrinkersweg was not possible due to the existing development.
As a result of the kidnappings and murders during the National Socialist era, there were hardly any burials in the new cemetery from 1935 onwards.
A memorial stone commemorates the parishioners who fell victim to the Holocaust :
“IN FAITHFUL MEMORY OF OUR 388 COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
IN THE YEARS 1933–1945 THEY HAD TO LEAVE YOUR LIFE FOR OUR JEWELRY. "
Worth mentioning is the work of the cemetery gardener Gustav Vinke, who continued to look after the grave sites free of charge despite the threats during the National Socialist dictatorship.
The cemetery chapel was repaired after the Second World War , but had to be demolished in 1973 due to vandalism . With the construction of the Ostwestfalendamm in 1970, the cemetery was reduced by 1,700 m².
The old Jewish cemetery, used from 1665 to 1891, was sacrificed for road construction in 1953. Some tombstones were moved to the new cemetery.
The Bielefeld Jewish Community offers guided tours of the cemetery in cooperation with the cemetery administration of the municipal environmental company. The male visitors are expected to wear a headgear in accordance with Jewish custom out of respect and deference to the dead. Otherwise the cemetery is not open to the public.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wiese, Heidi: Places for the dead and for the living. The Bielefeld cemeteries as cultural and natural history parks. In: Beaugrand, Andreas: Stadtbuch Bielefeld 1214 - 2014. Bielefelder Verlag. Bielefeld 2013, p. 417
- ↑ Schmidt, Carl: Gadderbaum - settlement studies of a community. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking Bethel. 2nd edition 1969, p. 45
- ↑ Guided tours of the cemetery in Bielefeld 2018 Retrieved on August 14, 2018.
literature
- Karl-Wilhelm Röhs: "The good place" the Jewish cemeteries in Bielefeld. Garden, Forestry and Cemetery Office of the City of Bielefeld, Bielefeld 1987
- Monika Minninger: No burial place like others. Bielefeld's Jewish cemetery from 1891. In: Ravensburger Blätter Heft 2/1998, pp. 32–47
- Heidi Wiese: Death as part of natural existence. The old Bielefeld cemeteries as a mirror of the city's history and civic ideals of eternal peace. In: Andreas Beaugrand (Ed.): City book Bielefeld. Tradition and progress in the East Westphalian metropolis. Westfalen Verlag, Bielefeld 1996, pp. 146–149
Web links
- Dagmar Giesecke: June 12, 1891: The Jewish community receives permission to occupy a new burial site on Haller Weg. In: Historical "RückKlick". Bielefeld City Archives , 2016, accessed on February 27, 2019 .
- Claudia Pohl: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia. Overview , Jewish cemeteries in Bielefeld. Accessed August 17, 2018
- [Cemetery administration of the city of Bielefeld]: Chronicle of the Johannisfriedhof . Bielefeld 2003, including the Jewish cemetery (PDF). Accessed August 17, 2018
See also
- List of architectural monuments in the Bielefeld-Gadderbaum district
- List of cemeteries in Bielefeld
Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 49.4 " N , 8 ° 30 ′ 57.1" E