Jewish cemetery (Werl)

Jewish cemetery in Werl

The Jewish cemetery in Werl is a burial place for members of the Werl Jewish community . The cemetery is located on Melsterstraße, corner of Hedwig-Dransfeld-Straße, opposite the town hall. 13 tombstones can still be seen.

history

The oldest news about a Jewish burial (which requires a cemetery for Jews) comes from the year 1565. Since 1742 the Jewish cemetery has been on Melsterstrasse. It was occupied until 1941.

The Westphalian Office for Monument Preservation documented this cemetery in pictures and text from 1975 to 2000.

The first devastation of the cemetery is documented in 1874 and 1894, several tombstones were destroyed in the process.

On October 5, 2004, strangers vandalized the cemetery ; three tombstones were overturned. These were put up again by employees of the city of Werl. The state security from Dortmund started investigations. A politically motivated background could not be proven.

literature

Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. Düsseldorf 1987.
Rudolf Preising: On the history of the Jews in Werl . Coelde, Werl 1971.

memorial
Memorial stone
Tombs

Web links

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

Werl. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.

Individual evidence

^ Rudolf Preising: On the history of the Jews in Werl . Coelde, Werl 1971, p. 9.
↑ Michael Jolk, Michael Ehlert: Commemoration of the Jewish Victims of National Socialism . In: Stadt Werl (ed.): 80 Years of the Pogrom Night 1938–2018. Memory of the Jewish victims of National Socialism. List of Werl's Jewish families in the 19th and 20th centuries ( Werler Memorial Culture series , ISSN 1615-0465 , issue 10). Werl 2018, pp. 5–20, here p. 6.

↑ Overview of the Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia, the photos are available in the photo archive of the Westphalian Office for Monument Preservation , accessed on October 5, 2019.

^ Rudolf Preising: On the history of the Jews in Werl . Coelde, Werl 1971, p. 41.

^ Amalie Rohrer , Hans Jürgen Zacher (eds.) Werl. History of a Westphalian city , Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-87088-844-X , Volume 2, p. 867.

51.555195 7.916036Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 18.7 " N , 7 ° 54 ′ 57.7" E

[1] Rudolf Preising: On the history of the Jews in Werl . Coelde, Werl 1971, p. 9.

[2] Michael Jolk, Michael Ehlert: Commemoration of the Jewish Victims of National Socialism . In: Stadt Werl (ed.): 80 Years of the Pogrom Night 1938–2018. Memory of the Jewish victims of National Socialism. List of Werl's Jewish families in the 19th and 20th centuries ( Werler Memorial Culture series , ISSN 1615-0465 , issue 10). Werl 2018, pp. 5–20, here p. 6.

[3] Overview of the Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia, the photos are available in the photo archive of the Westphalian Office for Monument Preservation , accessed on October 5, 2019.

[4] Rudolf Preising: On the history of the Jews in Werl . Coelde, Werl 1971, p. 41.

[5] Amalie Rohrer , Hans Jürgen Zacher (eds.) Werl. History of a Westphalian city , Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-87088-844-X , Volume 2, p. 867.