Jewish cemetery (Drove)

View of the Jewish cemetery in Drove

Memorial in memory of the Jewish citizens of Drove

The Jewish cemetery in Drove , a district of the Kreuzau community , is located between Drove and Thum on Landesstrasse 250 on Bruchberg in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The Jews from Kreuzau and Nideggen used the cemetery as early as 1663. The last burial dates from June 1, 1941. The property is 1611 m². There are 60 tombstones ( mazewot ) on the burial ground . In September 1962 a 2.50 m high memorial made of shell limestone was erected with the inscription: "For the victims of National Socialism". Since March 26, 1985 the cemetery has been included in the municipality's list of monuments .

The writer Heinrich Böll , who lived in nearby Langenbroich for a long time , mentioned the cemetery several times in his essay Die Juden von Drove from 1984.

See also : Drove synagogue

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 edition ).
• Dieter Peters : The Jewish cemetery in Kreuzau-Drove. In: Kreisjahrbuch 2004. Düren, pp. 119 ff, ISBN 3-927312-60-6 .

Web links

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

• Jewish cemetery Drove at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 14.3 "  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 2"  E