Jewish cemetery (Niederbieber)
The Niederbieber Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Niederbieber , a district of Neuwied in northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The cemetery is located on Kurt-Schumacher-Straße and has been a listed building since 1985 .
history
The Jewish community Neuwied had a cemetery in Niederbieber since the 17th century. It was also used as a burial place by the Jewish communities in the area. The oldest tombstone ( Mazewa ) is from 1706. The area of the cemetery is around 111 ares . The cemetery hall ( Tahara House ) built in 1908 was devastated in the pogrom night in 1938 and demolished in 1947.
The Niederbieber Jewish cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Rhineland-Palatinate. Today 661 tombstones are still preserved. There are no more tombstones on 294 graves.
literature
- Franz Regnery: Neuwied Jewish Community. History in pictures and documents. Signs and witnesses from then and now. Responsibility and atonement as a mandate for tomorrow. German-Israeli Friends of Neuwied, Neuwied 1988.
- Dorothea Elisabeth Deeters: You lived with us. On the history of the Wied-Neuwied rural Jews, for the period 1817–1942 shown in the village and synagogue district of Oberbieber. Veith, Neuwied-Oberbieber 1983.
Web links
- Niederbieber Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Jewish cemetery Niederbieber at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
Dierdorf | Drake | Hammerstein | Leubsdorf | Linz on the Rhine | Niederbieber | Puderbach | Rheinbrohl | Unkel | Waldbreitbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 35 ″ N , 7 ° 28 ′ 32 ″ E