Jewish cemetery (Parkfriedhof Huttrop)

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Mourning hall

The Jewish cemetery in the park cemetery is located in the Essen park cemetery in the Huttrop district .

history

Jews lived in Essen as early as the Middle Ages. In the 19th and especially in the early 20th century, the Jewish population grew considerably.

The Jewish burial site is located in the southwest of the Huttrop Park Cemetery and has been in use since 1931 until today. There are currently 335 tombstones . A memorial stone commemorates the persecution during the Nazi era . Around 36 tombstones from the older former Jewish cemetery in Lazarettstrasse are set up separately in the northern area . The mourning hall in the adjacent Schulzstraße was built in 1931 in connection with the construction of the cemetery. It was designed by the Essen architect Hermann Finger and by the architects Ernst Knoblauch and Eberhard Haakshorst after the Second World Warchanged. It has been a listed building since 1986. The cemetery is fenced in and secured with barbed wire.

literature

  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part II. Administrative region of Düsseldorf . Cologne 2000, pp. 105–118 (articles on architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.2)
  • Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007, p. 39 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (PDF; 534 kB); Retrieved November 9, 2016


Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 56 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 1 ″  E