Jewish cemetery (Kropp)
The Jewish cemetery of Kropp is located on the southern edge of the cemetery of the Protestant Diakoniewerk Kropp (formerly "Kropper Anstalt"). Between 1932 and 1941, six Jewish patients from the institution for the elderly, the sick and people with mental and intellectual disabilities were buried on the grave field, which is around three by ten meters. Today a double grave with two gravestones is still preserved on the area.
history
From the end of the 1920s, the Diakoniewerk Kropp took in mentally ill women. At the end of 1928, seventy patients from Berlin were transferred to Kropp, including seven women of Jewish faith from an institution in Berlin-Buch. Between five and eleven Jewish patients lived in Kropp until 1941. Religiously they were cared for by the Friedrichstadt rabbi. In the early years, deceased Jewish patients were buried in the nearest Jewish cemetery in Rendsburg-Westerrönfeld . As this led to high transport costs in the long run, the rabbi asked the superior of the institution to “allocate a cemetery for sick people of the Jewish faith”. This request was granted in 1931 and a row of graves on the edge of the institution cemetery, which had space for around 12-14 grave sites, was assigned, set up and inaugurated as a Jewish burial site and used until 1941.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dieter Peters: Jewish graves in the cemetery of the Protestant Diakoniewerk in Kropp. In: Alemannia Judaica. 2006, accessed February 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Diakoniewerk Kropp Foundation - 140 years of service to people. In: https://www.diakonie-kropp.de/unternehmen/diakoniewerk-kropp/chronik/ . Diakoniewerk Kropp Foundation, 2019, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 35.6 ″ N , 9 ° 30 ′ 55.2 ″ E