Jewish cemetery (Thür)

Jewish cemetery in Thür, general view

Memorial stone on the Jewish cemetery in Thür

The Jewish cemetery Thür is a Jewish cemetery in Thür , a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). The cemetery is a protected cultural monument and is located on the highway towards Welling .

history

The Jewish community of Thür and its affiliated Jews in Kottenheim initially buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Mayen . Around 1894 a separate cemetery was established in Thür, where burials took place until the 1930s.

During the Nazi era , the cemetery was destroyed and the tombstones ( mazewot ) were removed.

After 1945 a memorial stone was erected with the following inscription: In memory of the Jewish fellow citizens of Thür u. Kottenheim.

Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: Synagogues Rhineland-Palatinate - Saarland. "... and this is the gate of heaven" (= memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. 2). Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , pp. 363-364.

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