Jewish cemetery (Jemgum)
The Jewish cemetery of Jemgum is outside the village on Jemgumer Sieltief . The local community laid it out in the 19th century and used it until 1932. There are still 13 tombstones on the 1107 square meter area . This makes it one of the smallest Jewish burial places in East Frisia .
history
The Jewish community of Jemgum probably had close ties to the Emden community . Until well into the second half of the 17th century, like the other communities in the Rheiderland , she had her dead buried in the local cemetery . This was difficult to achieve, especially in the winter months. In 1670, the Jews from Bunde , Weener , Jemgum and Stapelmoor, under the leadership of Hayman Salomons from Jemgum, turned to Princess Christine Charlotte and asked “to consent to our end in the said area (empty place) Half or all of Diemat Landes at a fair price to us may buy and be allowed to use the same for a church in front of our dead ” .
The Princess granted this request after just one day. She then instructed her officials in Leerort to support the Jews in their land purchase and to ensure that they were not disadvantaged. The Rheiderland Jews then bought a piece of land in Smarlingen between Weener and Holthusen and built a cemetery there. This was fully occupied by 1848, so that the communities created their own burial places. The Jemgum Jews then acquired an area of 1,107 square meters west of the village on the road to Marienchor , on which they buried their dead from 1854/1855 to 1932. The community was always one of the smallest in East Frisia and its existence was threatened at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1925 there were only nine Jews left in Jemgum; in September 1939 there were six.
After the expulsion and murder of the town's Jewish residents during the Nazi era , the cemetery became the property of the Lower Saxony State Association of Jewish Communities after the Second World War .
See also
literature
- Herbert Reyer: Jemgum. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 ; Pp. 903-907
- The end of the Jews in East Frisia. Catalog for the exhibition of the East Frisian landscape on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1988, ISBN 3-925365-41-9
- Gerhard Kronsweide: The Jewish community Jemgum 1604-1904 - living together in Emsflecken, East Frisian genealogy, contributions to genealogy and heraldry, Issue 23, 2016. Published by the Upstalsboom Society for historical research on people and population history in Ostfriesland eV, ISBN 978-3-934508 -81-1
Web links
- Jemgum. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. Lower Saxony.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jemgum. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. Lower Saxony.
- ↑ Herbert Reyer, Martin Tielke (Ed.): Frisia Judaica. Contributions to the history of the Jews in East Frisia . Aurich 1988, ISBN 3-925365-40-0 , p. 83.
- ^ A b Herbert Reyer: Jemgum. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 ; Pp. 903-907
Coordinates: 53 ° 15 '39.1 " N , 7 ° 22' 1.7" E