Jewish cemetery (Hürth)

The former Hürth Jewish cemetery was on the Streufenberg in the now so-called Alt-Hürth district of today's city of Hürth in the Rhein-Erft district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

The Jewish cemetery was on the former Berrenrather Strasse, today Marienbornweg, and replaced a small previous cemetery that was on the same street and district, only closer to the exit from the town. Nothing is known about the occupancy of this older cemetery. The site of the very small cemetery was later sold to RWE in 1922, who built company apartments there directly on the street . The area behind these houses - this is probably where this cemetery was located - initially remained garden grounds. No tombstones ( mazewot ) have been preserved from the original furnishings , but the site is still there. The new, larger property was acquired by the wealthy Hürth merchant Cosmann Brünell in 1878 who, like the property for the synagogue, made this available to the religious community around 1882. The cemetery was occupied by 35 burials from 1886 to 1931.

After the dissolution of the synagogue community in Hürth (1937) and the harassment of the Jews began, the cemetery grounds were bought by the Roddergrube for their upcoming lignite mining . The graves had to be exhumed by the remaining Hürth Jews in the early summer of 1940 (around eleven people, including the elderly and children, still lived in the (Alt-) Hürth district). The remains were to be reburied in the Bocklemünd Jewish cemetery . Nothing is documented there about the whereabouts. There is also nothing left of the tombstones ( mazewot ). The lignite mining in the Theresia / Gotteshülfe field did not start again until 1965.

→ Section on the history of the community near Alt-Hürth

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Individual evidence

↑ In the non-Hürther literature incorrectly referred to as Straufenberg
↑ The family of the Hürth Jew Heumann (Ben) Seeligmann had to decide on a family name after Napoleon's decree of July 28, 1808 and to declare it to the Maire (mayor). Heumann decided in favor of (Christophe) Brunel, as did his wife and children, and the family was the only one to adapt to the conditions of the French era . See Eric Barthelemy: The choice of names of the Jews from Hürth from 1808 in Hürther Contributions Vol. 90 (2011), pp. 61 to 66
↑ Manfred Faust: On the history of the Hürther Jews , in: Hürther Heimat , No. 69/70 (1992), p. 36 ff, and Lothar and Maria Sterck: On the history of a half-timbered house in Alt-Hürth , in Hürther Heimat , 63 / 64 (1989), p. 57 ff (with receipts)
^ Walter Buschmann , Norbert Gilson, Barbara Rinn: Brown coal mining in the Rhineland , ed. from LVR and MBV-NRW , 2008, ISBN 978-3-88462-269-8 , p. 276

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[1] In the non-Hürther literature incorrectly referred to as Straufenberg

[2] The family of the Hürth Jew Heumann (Ben) Seeligmann had to decide on a family name after Napoleon's decree of July 28, 1808 and to declare it to the Maire (mayor). Heumann decided in favor of (Christophe) Brunel, as did his wife and children, and the family was the only one to adapt to the conditions of the French era . See Eric Barthelemy: The choice of names of the Jews from Hürth from 1808 in Hürther Contributions Vol. 90 (2011), pp. 61 to 66

[3] Manfred Faust: On the history of the Hürther Jews , in: Hürther Heimat , No. 69/70 (1992), p. 36 ff, and Lothar and Maria Sterck: On the history of a half-timbered house in Alt-Hürth , in Hürther Heimat , 63 / 64 (1989), p. 57 ff (with receipts)

[4] Walter Buschmann , Norbert Gilson, Barbara Rinn: Brown coal mining in the Rhineland , ed. from LVR and MBV-NRW , 2008, ISBN 978-3-88462-269-8 , p. 276