Jewish cemetery (Waren)

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The Jewish cemetery in Waren (burial place) 1880
The cemetery as a green area (2016)
Memorial plaque on the portal

The Jewish cemetery Waren (Müritz) in Waren (Müritz) in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is a protected architectural monument .

description

The former cemetery is located between Papenbergstrasse and Feldstrasse. There are no more tombstones ( Mazewot ) on the approx. 1400 m² park-like area with partly old trees . In the southern part, a memorial is a memorial of travertine and the inscription: "In silent tribute to the victims of fascism". Jewish cemeteries were designated as burial places on the official maps and were signed with an L instead of a †. Mostly they were created further outside the cities or communities, mainly in the barn districts or similar remote locations.

history

The time when the cemetery was founded is not known, but it will have been laid out only a little after the first protective Jews had settled in the 1750s. On the Wiebeking map of 1786 it is recorded, albeit indistinctly. An extension is documented in 1845/46. In January 1846, the Jewish community in the city acquired a piece of land to enlarge the cemetery. Funerals were carried out on it until the Nazi era. Since the Reichspogromnacht in November 1938, the cemetery was completely devastated. By 1942, all gravestones were removed and some of them were given to local stonemasons as material, while others were smashed and used to fill the road. In September 1948, the overgrown cemetery was restored as a green area. It was not until 1960 that it was redesigned to create a park-like area with a new surrounding wall. Gravestones built into the old wall, which were still preserved, were disposed of. In 1967 the city had its first memorial erected. The memorial erected in the middle of it in 1984, a travertine stele with an inscription, is the work of the local sculptor Walther Preik . A tombstone fragment was found and recovered in 1999 on the shores of Lake Tiefwarensee .

literature

  • Michael Brocke / Eckehard Ruthenberg / Kai Uwe Schulenburg: Stone and Name. The Jewish cemeteries in East Germany (New Federal States / GDR and Berlin). Institute Church and Judaism, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-923095-19-8 .
  • Arne Benkendorf / Dorothea Rother / Jürgen Kniesz: fellow human beings. Jewish life in commodities between emancipation and annihilation. Waren 1999 (series of publications by the Waren Museum and History Association, issue 16)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=213060&lang=de
  2. ↑ Benkendorf / Rother / Kniesz: fellowmen. Jewish life in Waren, 1999, p. 18
  3. ↑ City Archives Waren: Jewish Community, No. 1196
  4. ↑ https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=213060&lang=de

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 43.2 "  N , 12 ° 41 ′ 49.7"  E