Jewish cemetery (Schwarzrheindorf)

Jewish cemetery in Schwarzrheindorf

Former entrance to the Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Schwarzrheindorf is located in Schwarzrheindorf , a district of Bonn ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The Jewish cemetery is located downstream behind the flood dike, in the vicinity of the sewage treatment plant and the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

In 1854 the Beuel Jews received the status of a special community within the Bonn synagogue community, and in 1875 this synagogue association with Bonn was dissolved. The size of the Jewish community was 120 members in 1828, 182 in 1885 and 130 in 1932. Around 1808 a house of prayer is mentioned. The first synagogue in Beuel was built around 1800, and a new building was added in 1903 at the same location. During the pogrom on November 9, 1938 , the Beuel synagogue was set on fire and destroyed.

It is not clear when the cemetery was established. The oldest gravestone still in existence dates from 1623. There are still 445 gravestones in the 7660 square meter cemetery.

The cemetery was acquired by the Jewish community in Bonn in 1818. It was used by both the Jewish community in Bonn and the community in Beuel. In 1898 the cemetery area was divided: the Bonn synagogue community transferred the northern part to the Villich (Beuel) synagogue community, the Bonn community remained in possession of the southern part. As a result of the installation of anti-aircraft equipment in 1939, the cemetery was severely damaged. The burial place lined with trees and surrounded by a fence and two entrance gates is freely accessible today. A Holocaust memorial stone erected in November 1968 by the then city of Beuel is on the flood dike ; In April 2018, an extensive information board was inaugurated at the entrance to the cemetery.

Memorial, Jewish cemetery (Schwarzrheindorf-Bonn-Beuel)

Grave of Caroline and Samuel Löb

Graves of famous people

Isaak Kahana Rapaport (1730–13 March 1788), Chief Rabbi
Simcha Bunim Cohen Rappaport (1734–8 April 1816), Chief Rabbi
Abraham Auerbach (1763–1846), Chief Rabbi
Rachel Zuntz (1787–1874), entrepreneur
Aaron Auerbach (1810–1886), Chief Rabbi

literature

Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Cologne district . Cologne 1997 (Contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, Vol. 34.1), ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 , pp. 478–479.
Michael Brocke / Dan Bondy: The old Jewish cemetery Bonn-Schwarzrheindorf - 1623-1956. Pictorial and textual documentation , Cologne / Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7927-1199-0 .
Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 , p. 28.