Jewish cemetery (Ribnitz-Damgarten)

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There are three Jewish cemeteries in the town of Ribnitz-Damgarten in what is now the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern :

  • The cemetery in Damgarten ( Lage ), then known as the burial place, was located separately at the old cemetery at the time on Richtenberger Strasse and was bordered by Stralsunder Strasse and Recknitzweg.
  • The old burial place in Ribnitz ( Lage ) from 1755 was replaced by a new facility in 1885. It was located south of the street "Am Bleicherberg" at the eastern end of today's monastery park on the site of the school there.
  • The new Jewish cemetery ( Lage ) of Ribnitz was created after 1885 in connection with the construction of a new municipal cemetery on Schleusenberg / Mühlenberg. This cemetery was also cleared during the Nazi era .

history

Damgarten

The cemetery dates from before 1880, as evidenced by the designation with L instead of the (Christian) † in the measuring table sheet (MTB) 1880. The MTB 1920 also shows this signature. After that, the card signature was only used for the normal cemetery until it was closed and renatured after 1945. Again, the location of the burial site was on the outskirts of the city at the time, on the railway lines. This place seems to be unknown even to the "Alemannia Judaica" on their website, it is not listed there.

Ribnitz

Ribnitz had two burial places for the Jewish citizens at different times.

Old graveyard

The older square was laid out in 1755. The Jewish community in Ribnitz was able to acquire an area of ​​"50 feet square" to set up a cemetery. The Jews who died in the surrounding Jewish community were also buried here in the following decades. The cemetery was surrounded by a wall. This old Jewish cemetery was desecrated several times in the 1920s and 1930s and leveled after 1938 at the instigation of the Nazi authorities.

New cemetery

A new Jewish cemetery was created after 1885 in connection with the construction of a new municipal cemetery on Schleusenberg / Mühlenberg. As was customary at the time, the Jewish cemetery was laid out on the urban side, but separated, surrounded by a wall and on the outskirts near the Mühlenviertel. This cemetery was also cleared after 1938 during the Nazi era. There was no longer a Jewish community in Ribnitz-Damgarten. In 1933, 16 Jews still lived here. In 1942 the last four Jewish women were deported . Hardly anything is left of this cemetery. It was eventually leveled in the 1950s. Two remaining tombstones (from 1842 and 1850, the latter of Rabbi Meir, son of Rabbi David ha-Kohen) were moved from the older cemetery and a memorial was erected in the southwest corner of the former Jewish cemetery. The remaining area was re-occupied by the municipal cemetery.

On a granite obelisk from 1988 stands under a Star of David : "In memory of the Jewish citizens of our city who died in Ribnitz and all the Jewish citizens of our city who died far from home due to the turmoil of 1933/45 - Council of the City of Ribnitz-Damgarten"

literature

  • Michael Brocke, Eckehard Ruthenberg, Kai Uwe Schulenburg: Stone and Name. The Jewish cemeteries in East Germany (New Federal States / GDR and Berlin). Institute Church and Judaism Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-923095-19-8 . (This source contains numerous inaccuracies and errors and is therefore only of limited scientific and historical suitability.)
  • “Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism”, Volume II, Bonn 2000
  • Martin Kaule: Baltic Sea Coast 1933–1945. Ch. Links 2011, ISBN 9783861536116 .
  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. 3 volumes. Gütersloher Verlagshaus , Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 . (not evaluated)

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