Jewish cemetery (Heiligenhaus)
The Jewish cemetery Heiligenhaus is a Jewish cemetery in Heiligenhaus ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The burial site is on Görscheider Weg between Ratingen and Essen-Kettwig in the “Am Tannenbaum” area right on the border with Ratingen .
history
The Jewish cemetery located in the area of the city of Heiligenhaus today belonged to the historical place "Kettwig vor der Brücke" , which today belongs to Essen as a district .
Jewish families first settled in Kettwig in the 18th century. The size of the small congregation was 36 in 1885 and 45 in 1932. A synagogue is mentioned around 1800; this was probably the building that served as a synagogue until it was destroyed in 1938.
The cemetery on Görscheider Weg is the second Jewish burial place of the Kettwig Jewish community after an older cemetery on Blomericher Weg (near the Blomericher Hof in Ratingen) that was used from 1786 . It was documented from 1888 to 1945; 59 tombstones have been preserved. Today the cemetery is fenced and locked.
literature
- Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Düsseldorf administrative region . Cologne 2000, pp. 121–122 (articles on architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.2)
- Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007, p. 55 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 .
Web links
- Entry on New Jewish Cemetery on Görscheider Weg (New Jewish Cemetery Kettwig) in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council
- Kettwig (New Cemetery). In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 44.6 " N , 6 ° 55 ′ 29.1" E