Jewish cemetery (Lang-Göns)

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Jewish cemetery in Lang-Göns

The Jewish cemetery in Lang-Göns , a district of the Hessian community Langgöns in the district of Gießen , is located behind the community center "Am alten Stück" on the north-western edge of the village. It is a protected cultural monument .

history

The exact age of the Jewish cemetery in Lang-Göns is not known. However, it must have been created between 1884 and 1888. Until 1884 the Jewish cemetery in Großen-Linden was used as a collective cemetery for Gießen and 22 surrounding villages. Gravestone no. 2 for Lea Frensdorf made of red sandstone dates from December 25, 1888. In the years 1911 to 1917, the adjacent Eselsweg was razed as part of land consolidation . With the consent of the chairman of the Jewish community, the graves were filled by 1.30 meters.

The area has an area of ​​215 m² and is enclosed by a hornbeam hedge. All graves face east-west. The six oldest graves are missing grave borders, which may be related to the filling of the area in the 1910s. A total of 14 tombstones have been completely or partially preserved. The fragments indicate multiple desecrations. An off standing grave stone could have been drawn up for a 1,919 imprisoned Polish Jews, the suicide committed.

literature

  • Paul Arnsberg : The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning, fall, new beginning. Part 1, 1971, p. 477, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 . (only one sentence to the cemetery)
  • Otto Berndt, Friedrich Damrath, Hanno Müller: Jews in Lang-Göns. A documentation against forgetting , Fernwald printing workshop, Langgöns 2010. (not evaluated)
  • Otto Berndt: Lang-Göns. Insights into the past. Fernwald printing workshop, Langgöns 2013.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berndt: Lang-Göns. Insights into the past. 2013, p. 168.
  2. ↑ Berndt: Lang-Göns. Insights into the past. 2013, p. 170.

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 9.7 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 38.6 ″  E