Jewish cemetery (Freudenburg)

View of the cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Freudenburg is an old burial place of the Jews in Freudenburg , a local community in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Jewish cemetery is located about 200 meters north of the market square on Maximinstrasse.

history

The Jewish cemetery in Freudenburg, which was probably laid out as early as the Thirty Years War , was first mentioned in a document in 1684 .

The dead from the surrounding towns were also buried in the cemetery: until 1748 from Brotdorf , Hilringen and Merzig . Longer from Kirf , Könen and Meurich .

After two extensions (around 1860 and around 1900) the cemetery has an area of 35.44 acres . Today there are still 118 tombstones ( mazewot ).

Desecrations

In 1917 and 1919 the cemetery was desecrated and tombstones were knocked over or smashed. The cemetery was also desecrated during the Nazi era and further damage was caused by grenade strikes during World War II . After 1945 the cemetery was restored.

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 version ).
Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , ( Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany 2), pp. 155–156.
Günter Heidt, Dirk S. Lennartz: Almost forgotten witnesses. Jews in Freudenburg and in the Saar-Mosel area 1321–1943 . ( Self-published 2000). [not evaluated]

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Freudenburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Jewish cemetery Freudenburg near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)
Freudenburg Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
Entry on Jewish cemetery in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

49.543138888889 6.5341666666667Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 35.3 " N , 6 ° 32 ′ 3" E