Jewish cemetery (Uedem)
The Jewish cemetery on Marienstraße is a Jewish cemetery in Uedem , a municipality in the Kleve district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The Jews of Uedem and Kalkar formed a common synagogue district in the 19th century . The size of the Jewish community in Uedem was 44 in 1829, 37 in 1885 and 22 in 1932. A former monastery chapel was used as a synagogue from 1820/21 . This was sold in 1938/39 and demolished before 1945.
In Uedem there was already an older burial site on Graf-Johann-Wall, which had been occupied since around 1700 and was abandoned in 1825. The younger Jewish cemetery in Marienstraße, which was built around 1830, was built over during the Nazi era and was not restored until 1957. Today it is located right next to the municipal cemetery , there are still 17 tombstones here .
literature
- Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part II. Administrative region of Düsseldorf . Cologne 2000, pp. 364–365 (articles on architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.2)
- Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007, p. 86 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 .
Web links
- Uedem (New Cemetery). In: Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Editor: Claudia Pohl.
- Uedem (old cemetery). In: Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Editor: Claudia Pohl.
- Entry on Jewish cemetery Marienstraße in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 6 ° 16 ′ 34.6 ″ E