Jewish cemetery (Trittenheim)

Jewish cemetery in Trittenheim

The Trittenheim Jewish Cemetery is a relatively young burial site for the Jews of Trittenheim , a local community in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in the middle of vineyards, about one and a half kilometers from the village behind a high bush hedge. The Jewish cemetery is a protected cultural monument .

history

The Jewish cemetery in Trittenheim is a reminder of the 200-year history of Judaism in this place. From around 1896 to 1938 it was the church's yard for the Jewish community. The dead of the Jewish community in Trittenheim were previously buried in the surrounding Jewish cemeteries, especially the Jewish cemetery in Leiwen and the Jewish cemetery in Dhron . In the 1890s, the Trittenheim Jewish community acquired 2.99 acres of land in the "second forest ditch" to set up its own cemetery. The cemetery was occupied from around 1898/99 to 1939. The cemetery was desecrated during the National Socialist era and in 1992. Today there are 19 tombstones ( Mazewot ) that are oriented towards Jerusalem according to old tradition.

literature

Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ).
Stefan Fischbach, Ingrid Westerhoff: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , State Conservatory Office of the Saarland, Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3313-7 , ( Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany 2), pp. 370–371.

Web links

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

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