Jewish cemetery (snakes)

Jewish Cemetery
Mazewot in the Jewish cemetery
Data
place	Garden street snakes
Construction year	before 1830
Floor space	2219 m²
Coordinates	51 ° 48 '53.7 "  N , 8 ° 50' 43.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 48 '53.7 "  N , 8 ° 50' 43.5"  E

The Jewish cemetery is located on Gartenstrasse in the municipality of Schlangen in the district of Lippe in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located on a small hill under old trees and covers 2219 m². Jews from Schlangen and Haustenbeck were buried in the cemetery. On December 15, 1992 he was entered in the list of monuments of the community of Schlangen.

history

When it was recorded in 1697, there were only seven Jews living in Schlangen, all of whom belonged to a family that had settled there around 1675. By the middle of the 18th century the number of families increased to four. It is not known where the Jews buried their dead at that time. Likewise, the Jewish cemetery in Schlangen cannot be precisely dated: Moritz Rülf wrote in 1937 in his “Memorandum on the synagogues and cemeteries of the municipalities of the regional association in Lippe that I visited” that it was well over 100 years old. Newer sources give a time around 1830.

In 1933 there were 25 Jewish citizens in Schlangen and another five in Haustenbeck. Many left the place in the following years, some of them emigrated to England, Holland, Argentina, France or the USA. Those who remained were deported, and in March 1942, Schlangen was “ free of Jews ”. Robert Levi, who was deported to Warsaw on March 30, 1942, was the only one to return to Schlangen after the war.

33 of the tombstones are still preserved, two of them more recent. The last burial took place in 2007. In 1963 a memorial was dedicated in the cemetery. It bears the inscription "To the Jewish victims of National Socialism in the Schlangen community".

literature

• Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part III: Detmold administrative district (=  contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 1.1 ). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , p. 341-342 .

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia: snakes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dina van Faassen: The Jewish community in Schlangen-Haustenbeck . In: History of the villages Schlangen, Kohlstädt, Oesterholz and Haustenbeck . tape 1 . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89534-793-1 , p. 323-324 .
2. ↑ Jürgen Hartmann: The memorandum of the Detmold teacher and preacher Moritz Rülf on the synagogues and cemeteries in Lippe 1936/37 . In: Rosenland. Journal of Lippe History . No. 9 , p. 28 ( rosenland-lippe.de [PDF; 1000 kB ]). PDF; 1.0 MB ( memento of the original from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe . dkv der kleine verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 , p. 99 .
4. ↑ Dina van Faassen: The Jewish community in Schlangen-Haustenbeck . S. 338-343 .