Jewish cemetery (location)

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Jewish Cemetery
Jewish cemetery location

Jewish cemetery location

Data
place Location (lip)
Floor space 3004 m²
Coordinates 51 ° 59 '45.9 "  N , 8 ° 48' 21.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 59 '45.9 "  N , 8 ° 48' 21.1"  E

The Jewish cemetery is on Flurstrasse in Lage near the corner of Lemgoer Strasse. In earlier times a ravine ran here from Lage to Lemgo. The site was surveyed by the synagogue community of Lage in 1862/62 and registered a size of 3004 m². Jews from the Lage and Heiden communities were buried in the cemetery. Five tombstones belonging to the Hamlet family from Heiden are separated from the rest of the cemetery by juniper bushes.

Around 100 mazewot still stand on it , mostly with rounded arches, some with palmettes . The inscriptions are partly in Hebrew, partly in German. The cemetery is surrounded by a hedge, the trees are birch trees and an old juniper tree.

At the entrance there are two memorial plaques from 1984 and 1994.

history

The oldest documentary evidence is a missal by Johann Rudolf Heimburg from 1771, in which the cemetery is marked. In fact, the cemetery is likely to be older. According to oral tradition, there is said to have been a 350-year-old tombstone in 1936.

In the summer of 1935 the cemetery was desecrated by members of the SS , and some gravestones were destroyed in the process. The incident was even reported abroad, which is why the cemetery was put back in order soon afterwards. During the Second World War , the corpses of Russian prisoners of war from the sugar factory in Lage were buried in the cemetery. They were later reburied in Stukenbrock . In August 1938, the Jewish community in Lage sold part of the site to the resident Gustav Sigges, who was supposed to move the gravestones in the other (upper) part and separate the two parts with a hedge. The remaining part with a size of 1789 m² was acquired by the city of Lage on January 15, 1941 to build a (unrealized) bypass. In 1952 the city had to return the cemetery to the Jewish Trust Corporation . For this purpose, the cemetery was restored by the city.

In October 1988 the cemetery was desecrated again and several tombstones were broken through.

Since 1984 there has been an annual memorial service on November 9th in the cemetery. The northern part was placed under monument protection on July 2, 1992 as an architectural monument. On the southern part, a new building with residential houses was planned. Thanks to a citizens' initiative, these plans could be averted and the monument protection was extended to the entire cemetery area in 2003.

literature

  • Martin Hankemeier: On the history of the Jews in Lage (=  Panu Derech . Volume 12 ). 2nd Edition. Detmold 2003, ISBN 3-935345-03-8 , pp. 65-71 .
  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part III: Detmold administrative district (=  contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 1.1 ). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , p. 323-324 .

Web links

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