Jewish cemetery on Glehner Weg

Jewish Cemetery

Birch avenue

The Jewish cemetery on Glehner Weg in the Stadionviertel , a district of Neuss , is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

In 1887 the community acquired today's property on Glehner Weg for its cemetery, in the immediate vicinity of the municipal cemetery on Büttger Landstrasse (today Rheydter Strasse), which was laid out in 1873. The old burial place on Düsseldorfer Straße was closed in 1890 with the opening of the new cemetery and abandoned in 1920. The tombstones ( Mazewa ) there were moved to Glehner Weg. The Jewish cemetery on Glehner Weg covers an area of approximately 0.24 hectares. It is enclosed with a fence and partly a hedge; the entrance is formed by a two-leaf metal gate. A middle birch avenue leads into the depths of the rectangular property, on which 212 grave steles of different shapes from the period between 1845 and 1965 have been preserved. Since the cemetery is still occupied, there are also some younger graves. In the rear section, the oldest grave sites, which were transferred from the closed cemetery on Düsseldorfer Straße, are set up as a closed group. The names and inscriptions of the 212 steles are documented. These 212 steles form the historic core that is worth protecting.

As a testimony to Jewish life in Neuss and its eventful history, the Jewish cemetery on Glehner Weg is important for human history and for Neuss. There is a public interest in its preservation for scientific, local and cultural-historical reasons. In relation to the design of the tombstones and their inscriptions, there are also artistic aspects. The cemetery in its entirety forms a monument, with the historical gravestones as an essential constituent and worthy of protection component.

literature

Michael Brocke and Hartmut Mirbach : Boundaries of Life. In Jewish cemeteries on the Lower Rhine. Mercator-Verlag, Duisburg 1988, ISBN 3-87463-145-1 .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof am Glehner Weg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on the Jewish cemetery on Glehner Weg in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association

Individual evidence

↑ Brocke et al .: Landmarks of Life. In Jewish cemeteries on the Lower Rhine. 1988, pp. 89-92.
^ Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine University of Heidelberg
↑ Neuss under National Socialism

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[1] Brocke et al .: Landmarks of Life. In Jewish cemeteries on the Lower Rhine. 1988, pp. 89-92.

[2] Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine University of Heidelberg

[3] Neuss under National Socialism