Jewish cemetery (Hermeskeil)

Memorial stone on the former Jewish cemetery in Hermeskeil

The Jewish cemetery Hermeskeil is a cemetery in the town of Hermeskeil in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It stands as a cultural monument under monument protection .

The Jewish cemetery is in the immediate vicinity of the Christian (Protestant) cemetery on Züscher Straße / Straße Zum Ringgraben .

There are no more gravestones in the cemetery, which was laid out in 1880 and occupied until the beginning of the 20th century . It was devastated in 1938. A memorial stone commemorates the dead of the Hermeskeil Jewish community buried here.

history

During the Second World War , the dead from the SS special camp in Hinzert were buried in the destroyed cemetery . They were exhumed in March 1946 and buried in the Hinzert memorial . The cemetery in Hermeskeil was - as far as possible - restored.

Desecrations of the cemetery

• The cemetery was severely desecrated for the first time in the summer of 1929 . Two tombstones were knocked over and "soiled in the meanest way", that is, probably smeared with Nazi slogans or symbols.
• In September 1929 all the tombstones were overturned and destroyed.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Hermeskeil # Monument zones

Web links

• Hermeskeil Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica (with eight photos)
• Hermeskeil 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 (with six photos).

Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '18 "  N , 6 ° 57' 8.6"  E