Jewish cemetery (Detmold)

Jewish Cemetery
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place	Detmold
Construction year	1886
Floor space	1447 m²
Coordinates	51 ° 56 '29.2 " N , 8 ° 53' 19.8" E Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '29.2 " N , 8 ° 53' 19.8" E

The Jewish cemetery is a listed burial site in Detmold in the Lippe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

history

The first Jewish cemetery in Detmold was located at the former Lemgoer Tor, in the immediate vicinity of the Reformed cemetery, which originally served as a plague cemetery from 1625 . Today the Weerth School is at the location . When the cemetery became too small in 1724, the Jews asked Count Simon Heinrich Adolf for permission to expand it. In 1726 the widow Groppe sold them a piece of land that was directly adjacent to the existing cemetery. There was again a lack of space here in the late 18th century, but it was not until 1883 that the property on Spitzenkamptwete could be acquired by the merchant Rudolf Heineman.

In 1939 the Detmold Jews had to sell the property on Richthofenstraße (formerly Lemgoer Tor) to the city, in 1948 the “still usable stones” were transferred to the new cemetery, so that in 1954 the old cemetery could be leveled.

Characteristic

Jewish cemetery on the Spitzenkamptwete

The cemetery occupies an area of about 28 × 53 m. An avenue of trees of life leads right through it . The entrance on the western side consists of a two-wing wrought iron gate, which is set in two simple pillars.

In the front area on the right side are the gravestones transferred from the old cemetery, the oldest of them from 1731.

Notable tombs include a. that of the banker Hermann Salomon (1843–1907), whose grave monument was designed by the Berlin architect Bruno Möbius, that of the Blank family and that of the Detmold factory owner's family ( United Furniture Factory ) and chairman of the Israelite Community Assembly, Albert Eichmann.

The burial site is an open cemetery, which means that burials by the Jewish community of Herford-Detmold are still possible.

literature

Gudrun Mitschke-Buchholz: In the footsteps of Jews - two city tours through Detmold . Lippe-Verlag, Lage 2001, ISBN 3-9808082-8-9 , p. 43-47 .

Web links

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

Claudia Pohl: Detmold (Spitzenkamptwete). 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. In: uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved November 9, 2019
Claudia Pohl: Detmold (old cemetery). 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. In: uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved November 9, 2019
Monument register. In: geoportal.detmold.de. Retrieved November 9, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jewish cemetery. In: www.stadtdetmold.de. Archived from the original on November 28, 2007 ; accessed on November 9, 2019 .
↑ Michael Guenter: The Jews in Lippe from 1648 to the emancipation in 1858 (= special publications of the natural science and historical association for the land of Lippe . Volume 20 ). Natural and historical association for the state of Lippe, Detmold 1973, p. 98 .

[:0-1] Jewish cemetery. In: www.stadtdetmold.de. Archived from the original on November 28, 2007 ; accessed on November 9, 2019 .

[2] Michael Guenter: The Jews in Lippe from 1648 to the emancipation in 1858 (= special publications of the natural science and historical association for the land of Lippe . Volume 20 ). Natural and historical association for the state of Lippe, Detmold 1973, p. 98 .