Jewish cemetery (Weilburg)

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View of the Jewish cemetery
View of the Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Weilburg is a Jewish cemetery in the town of Weilburg in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse . The cemetery is a protected cultural monument . It is located next to today's Philippinum grammar school .

history

The cemetery served the Jewish residents of Weilburg and Waldhausen and, at times, those of Merenberg and Löhnberg as a burial place. Jews have been found in the city since the Middle Ages. Since the 17th century they formed a Jewish community - the synagogue , the school ( cheder ) and the bathhouse ( mikveh ).

The cemetery was laid out in 1751 as a new Jewish cemetery . The cemetery in the Haingraben by the city wall, which had been in use up to this point, was fully occupied. The new cemetery was surrounded by a wall in 1886. The last funeral took place in 1936. After 1937 a part of the cemetery that was still free was sold. Numerous tombstones were used as building material.

There were two to three hundred tombstones ( mazewot ) on the 12.40 ares large cemetery that has been preserved . Over a hundred are still preserved. In the cemetery there is a memorial to the Jewish citizens of Weilburg who died in World War I , as well as a memorial to the Jewish residents of the city of Weilburg who were victims of National Socialist persecution.

See also

literature

  • Falko Lehmann: Cultural monuments in the Hesse district Limburg-Weilburg . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. tape 2 . Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-528-06243-6 , pp. 480 .
  • Edith Bröckel among others: Weilburg-Lexikon . Weilburg City Council, Weilburg 2006, OCLC 179983121 , p. 195-196 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 14 "  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 23.4"  E