Jewish cemetery (capstone)

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The Deckstein Jewish cemetery is a closed Jewish cemetery for other burials and is located in the Deckstein district, which is part of Cologne 's Lindenthal district.

Entrance (Decksteiner Str.)
Cemetery (view from Keussenstrasse)

Today the cemetery is around 2,700 m² and includes around 300 graves with 298 gravestones from the 1st half of the 20th century. It can only be reached via a private road from Decksteiner Straße and is not open to the public. As a historical cultural asset, it is under monument protection . To the east it borders on the former municipal Decksteiner Friedhof, which is now used as a park.

Like all Cologne Jewish cemeteries, it is owned and managed by the Cologne Synagogue Community .

history

In 1910 the area was acquired by the exit community Adass Jeschurun and the cemetery was established. Their request to receive a demarcated parcel for their members in the Deutz Jewish cemetery had been rejected. The graves were reserved for Orthodox Jews only, but were also occupied by orthodox believers in Rhenish and Westphalian communities beyond Cologne until 1945. According to the ideas of the Adass Jeschurun, the graves are unadorned and the grave steles are simple, mostly with only Hebrew characters. For the law-abiding Kohanim , who are not allowed to come into contact with the dead, the prayer room and morgue had separate roofs so that they too could attend the funeral service.

The cemetery was desecrated in 1927 and 1933 without the suspected NSDAP members being brought to justice. In 1936 the cemetery also took over the remains of the disbanded Judenbüchel . After the war, two plots of land for development (Decksteiner Str. 45 and 47) were removed from the purchased, not yet occupied area.

In 1986 the grave of Therese Wallach (1895–1942), the director of the Abraham Frank House , a Jewish orphanage , was found in the cemetery . A year later, a tombstone was donated to her in honor of former pupils. A stumbling stone in Cologne-Braunsfeld also reminds of Therese Wallach .

See also

literature

  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia, Part I: Cologne district. (Contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland January 34) P. 289/291, JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 .
  • Herbert Heimbach: The Jewish Adass Jeschurun ​​community and its cemetery in Cologne-Deckstein. Cologne 2010.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Puvogel, Martin Stankowski: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation. Volume I., 2nd revised and expanded edition. Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 580.

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