Jewish cemetery (Nümbrecht)
The Nümbrecht Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Nümbrecht , a municipality in the Oberbergisches Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The cemetery is located in the old pond meadow .
history
The Jewish community of Nümbrecht built its own cemetery around 1820. Until a Jewish cemetery was set up in Ruppichteroth , the deceased there were buried in Nümbrecht. The cemetery was expanded in 1902 and today there are 14 tombstones ( mazewot ). Six of the tombstones no longer have any inscriptions because the marble slabs have been chipped off. The burial site, which was once densely occupied, was destroyed during the Nazi era and tombstones were used for residential construction purposes.
memorial
A memorial was inaugurated in the cemetery on May 28, 1995 . Six plaques with the names of the extermination camps in which the Jewish citizens of Nümbrecht were murdered are embedded in the ground between seven granite steles . On a stone slab it says in Hebrew : The righteous perish and nobody takes it to heart, and the pious men are carried away, while nobody notices that the righteous are carried away by wickedness ( Isa. 57.1 EU ).
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 version ).
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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 14.1 ″ N , 7 ° 32 ′ 24.7 ″ E