Jewish cemetery (Coesfeld)

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The Jewish cemetery in Coesfeld
Gravestone of the old Jewish cemetery on the Judgment Ring

The (new) Jewish cemetery Coesfeld is a Jewish cemetery in Coesfeld . The cemetery is located out of town on Osterwicker Straße, near Blomenesch, and is a listed building .

The cemetery was used for burials from 1896. The last burial took place in 1995. 47 tombstones ( mazewot ) have been preserved on the cemetery grounds . The city of Coesfeld has set up a memorial stele on the central access road to commemorate the persecution and murder of Coesfeld's Jewish citizens under the Nazi reign of terror in the Third Reich . Another stele was unveiled in front of the entrance to the cemetery next to the wrought iron gate at a memorial service on the 70th anniversary of the November pogroms on November 9, 2008. This was designed by the Coesfeld architect Paul Schürmann and uses a bronze plate to indicate the cemetery and its history. In the same year the Heimatverein Coesfeld had all gravestones photographed for documentation purposes in an inventory.

In addition to this "new" one, there was an older Jewish community cemetery in Coesfeld on the site of today's court ring. Only a tombstone on the grass verge between the parking lot of the VR-Bank Westmünsterland and the court ring reminds of this cemetery today . It was documented from 1678 to 1896. 13 tombstones from the old cemetery were rebuilt in the new cemetery.

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Coesfeld)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ The Hebrew saying from Klgl 1.12 that decorates the stele is translated as “Look and see whether any pain is like my pain.”, Cf. Bibel-online.net .
  2. ↑ Coesfeld Community Foundation: Stele indicates Jewish cemetery , accessed on November 20, 2019.
  3. ^ Documentation project on the history of Jewish life in Westphalia at the University of Heidelberg.
  4. ↑ The old Jewish cemetery in Coesfeld in the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany .

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 18.5 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 37.4 ″  E