Jewish cemetery (local mountains)

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The Jewish cemetery in Hausberge
Michelsohn family mausoleum

The Hausberge Jewish cemetery is located in Hausberge , a district of Porta Westfalica in the Minden-Lübbecke district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The closed cemetery is located on a ridge to the north of Kempstrasse and is registered with the number 0197 as an architectural monument in the municipal monument list.

History and description

The exact origin of the Jewish cemetery in Hausberge is not known. The cemetery was first mentioned in writing in 1618/21. The oldest surviving tombstones go back to the early 19th century. Many well-preserved tombstones of above-average quality have been preserved on the graves, which are closely arranged in a row. At the main entrance of the cemetery is the urn mausoleum of the Michelsohn family, in the form of a small column portico . From May to October 2015 the urn mausoleum was renovated on the initiative of the Porta Westfalica comprehensive school. A total of 15,000 euros were used; The German Foundation for Monument Protection has approved 10,000 euros , the remaining 5,000 euros have been raised through private donations from the students.

At first only the deceased of the Jewish community of Hausberge were buried in the Hausberg cemetery, from the beginning of the 18th century also those of the Jewish community of Minden and the surrounding area, after the Jewish cemetery of Minden had to give way to the expansion of the city ​​fortifications . In the southeast corner of the cemetery is the small plot for the Jews from Hausberge, the larger, western area of ​​the cemetery is part of the Jewish community of Minden.

Otto Michelsohn , who helped many Jews to flee during the Holocaust, was buried in a simple grave in the cemetery in 1992 . There are also two commemorative plaques in the cemetery for Otto Michelson's parents, who died in South America in 1958 and 1964.

literature

  • Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe . dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3
  • Karl-Wilhelm Röhs: The cemetery of the Mindener Jews at the Porta Westfalica . In: Der Minden - Ravensberger, 63, Bielefeld 1991
  • Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
  2. ^ Schul-AG “Jewish Cemetery Hausberge” , accessed on October 30, 2015
  3. ↑ Karl-Wilhelm Röhs: The cemetery of the Mindener Jews at the Porta Westfalica . In: Der Minden-Ravensberger, 63, Bielefeld 1991
  4. ↑ Article on the website Zeitgeschichte-Minden zg-minden.de: Defying the Nazis as a Jew

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 12.2 "  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 30.6"  E