Jewish cemetery (Emmerich am Rhein)

The Jewish cemetery Emmerich is a Jewish cemetery in Emmerich am Rhein , a town in the Kleve district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The cemetery was between the city wall and the city moat.

history

A Jewish community had existed in Emmerich since the first third of the 17th century, which had belonged to the Rees synagogue district as a branch since 1854 , before an independent synagogue community was formed around 1900. In 1932 Elten was affiliated. The size of the congregation was 87 people in 1816, 151 in 1885 and in 1932 about 90–95 members. A prayer room was occupied at the beginning of the 17th century, around 1674 a residential building was converted into a synagogue , which was renovated in 1811/12 and repaired again in 1926/27. The synagogue was sold in 1938 and was not damaged during the November pogroms . In 1944 it was destroyed by bombs.

In 1629 the Jews of Emmerich were given permission to create a cemetery between the then city wall and the city moat, which was used as a place of burial for them and partly also for Kleve Jews from 1629 to 1826. When the harbor basin was expanded in 1827, 13 graves and gravestones were transferred to the Jewish cemetery in Wassenbergstrasse , which was occupied from 1826 to 1928 . There is also a Jewish burial place in the communal cemetery.

literature

Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part 2. Düsseldorf administrative region . Bachem, Cologne 2000, pp. 314-320 (contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, volume 34.2), ISBN 3-7616-1444-6
Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007, p. 38 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2
Michael Brocke , Clare Pelzer, Herbert Schüürman: Jews in Emmerich . Emmericher Geschichtsverein, Emmerich 1993, (Emmericher Research, Volume 12), ISBN 3-923692-16-1

Web links

Entry on the Jewish cemetery between the city wall and the moat in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association
Emmerich (city wall). In: Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine, EG. 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

↑ Emmerich (Mühlenweg). In: Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine, EG. 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.

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[1] Emmerich (Mühlenweg). In: Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine, EG. 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.