Jewish cemetery (Ottweiler)

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The Jewish cemetery in Ottweiler was the cemetery of the Jewish community in Ottweiler in the Saarland district of Neunkirchen . It is a listed building.

history

The dead of the Jewish community were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Illingen . By order of the then District Administrator Carl von Rohr , the local Jews had to bury their deceased in Ottweiler from 1842 and were given their own cemetery for this. At this time the number of Jews living in Ottweiler reached its highest level; an independent synagogue community was not constituted until 1896.

The last burial took place in 1935. The cemetery was devastated in 1938 and restored in 1945. Today around 80 tombstones are preserved. The oldest surviving grave in the cemetery dates from 1864.

literature

  • Markus Krämer: Contributions to the history of the Ottweiler Jews. sn Ottweiler 1989, (typewritten manuscript).
  • Friends of the Rescue of Jewish Cultural Assets in Saarland eV, State Conservatory Office of the Saarland (Ed.): The cord is loose - the ribbon is broken. Jewish cemeteries in Saarland. Circle of Friends for the Rescue of Jewish Cultural Property in Saarland eVua, Saarbrücken 2004, p. 48 f.
  • “Broken Pillar” - from integration to deportation. Jewish cemetery Ottweiler. Deportation to Gurs 1940 (= Stadtmuseum Ottweiler. Writings of the Stadtmuseum. 16, ZDB -ID 2796954-X ). Stadtmuseum Ottweiler, Ottweiler 2012, (Extended reprint as: Hans-Joachim Hoffmann: The Jewish cemetery Ottweiler. Hoffmann, Ottweiler 2015).

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Ottweiler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sub-monument list of the district of Neunkirchen ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, State Monuments Office Saarland, p. 18 (120 kB; PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ^ Epigraphic database of the Steinheim Institute

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '17.3 "  N , 7 ° 8' 53.4"  E