Jewish cemetery (Elbrinxen)

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The last surviving tombstone in the Jewish cemetery in Elbrinxen

The Jewish cemetery Elbrinxen is Elbrinxen , a town in the municipality Luegde in Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The last surviving tombstone of the Jewish cemetery is registered with the number 86 as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Lügde .

description

The small Jewish cemetery of Elbrinxen is located on the Postweg, northeast of the Elbrinxen Evangelical Church , on the northeast corner of the warrior cemetery . It was documented in the 19th century. Only one tombstone ( Mazewa ), erected for the Jewish trader Jonathan Katzenstein, who died in 1848, remains in the cemetery. The tombstone has a Hebrew inscription on the front and a German inscription on the back and has been implemented several times over the past centuries.

literature

  • Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia . Part III: Detmold administrative district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 1.1), Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , p. 333.

Web links

  • Elbrinxen In: 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. Editor: Claudia Pohl.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elbrinxen In: 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.
  2. ↑ Willy Gerking: Das Kirchspiel Elbrinxen , in: Elbrinxen - a village in the Lippe region in the course of time , Detmold 1986, ISBN 3926311088 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '25.4 "  N , 9 ° 15' 1.4"  E