Jewish cemetery (Leiwen)

Leiwen Jewish cemetery

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Leiwen

Tombstones

The Jewish cemetery Leiwen is an old burial place of the Jews in Leiwen , a municipality in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Jewish cemetery is a protected cultural monument .

history

It is not known when the Jewish cemetery in Leiwen was established. The approximately 50 tombstones ( mazewot ) still preserved today are from the period between 1863 and 1933. Not only the dead of the Jewish community in Leiwen , but also the Jewish community in Klüsserath, were buried in the cemetery. Likewise, until 1898/99, the dead of the Trittenheim Jewish community , which then built its own Jewish cemetery .

The cemetery was partially destroyed during the National Socialist era and restored as much as possible after 1945.

The following text is written on the information board on the right pillar of the cemetery entrance: Cemetery of the former Jewish communities of Leiwen (1592-1938), Klüsserath and, for a time, of Trittenheim. After destruction in the Third Reich, approx. 50 reconstructed tombstones from the period from 1863 to 1933 with Hebrew inscriptions and some German names repeated. Simple, rounded steles made of red sandstone predominate . Obelisks and stones with obelisk tops have also appeared since the end of the 19th century . The cemetery is the lasting and admonishing memory of the former Jewish community in Leiwen, which was a victim of the National Socialist tyranny .

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).
• Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , ( Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany 2), pp. 234–235.

Web links

Commons : Leiwen Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images

• Leiwen Jewish Cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• Jewish cemetery in Leiwen 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 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 41 ″  E