Jewish cemetery (Unkel)

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Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Unkel
View of the Jewish cemetery in Unkel

The Jüdische Friedhof Unkel is a Jewish cemetery in Unkel , a town in the Neuwied district in northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The cemetery is part of the municipal cemetery on the corner of Am Hohen Weg and Simon-Levy-Straße. It has been a protected cultural monument since 1988 .

history

The Jewish cemetery in Unkel was laid out as part of the communal cemetery in the 1870s - the property was acquired in April 1877, the first burial in August 1879 - and occupied until 1935. Before that, the Unkel Jews were buried in Linz or Bad Honnef . The last, 47th, funeral took place in January 1940. According to a decree of the district administration dated August 28, 1941, the gravestones in the cemetery were removed and only partially put up again after the war. There are eight tombstones ( Mazewa ) left today. The area of ​​the cemetery is 6.46 ares . An information board has been pointing to the cemetery since February 2016.

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: 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. 371-372.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Unkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Neuwied district. Mainz 2019, p. 62 (PDF; 6.4 MB).
  2. ↑ Sensitive memory of a dark chapter , General-Anzeiger , September 1, 2006, p. 6
  3. ↑ admonishing remembrance and reverence for the dead , General-Anzeiger , February 29, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 46.8 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 1.3 ″  E