Jewish cemetery (Worms-Heppenheim)
The Jewish cemetery Worms-Heppenheim is a Jewish cemetery in the Worms district of Heppenheim with 18 preserved tombstones ( Mazewot ) from 1900 to 1935. It is located north of the communal cemetery in the street Am Friedhof and is a protected cultural monument .
history
Although there is evidence of Jewish residents in Heppenheim an der Wiese from 1722, a Jewish cemetery was only established there in 1895; previously the Jewish cemetery in Dalsheim and from 1867 the Jewish cemetery in Pfeddersheim were used. The Heppenheim an der Wiese community gave the Heppenheim Jews a piece of land north of the village to build the cemetery. According to a listing from 1896, eight families had burial rights there. The first burial on the site took place in 1900, the last in 1935.
After the November pogroms in 1938 , the cemetery was devastated: the graves were desecrated and the surrounding wall torn down. The cemetery was largely restored in the spring of 1945, possibly at the instigation of the former local group leader of the NSDAP . In 1953 the cemetery received a new fence in place of the largely demolished surrounding wall.
The cemetery was designated as a monument zone on November 7, 1990 . The aim of the protection is "the preservation of the entire facility [...] as a final reference to the former Jewish community in Heppenheim and as a monument to German-Jewish history."
description
The cemetery covers a triangular plot of 337 m², which borders on the south side of the wall of the communal cemetery. A short section of the enclosing wall along the east side, the Monsheimer Weg , has been preserved at the northern tip of the cemetery, the rest of the east side and the entire west side are separated by a fence.
The 18 easted graves with 24 burials are laid out in two rows of graves: A row of 16 graves along the western border and in front of it a row of two graves. The tombstone has been preserved in all graves, but the inscription panels are missing on seven tombstones; they were probably destroyed between 1938 and 1945.
Today the cemetery belongs to the Jewish community of Mainz.
literature
- Werner Kropp: The Jewish cemetery in Worms-Heppenheim. In: Der Wormsgau 17 (1998), p. 178 ff. ISSN 0084-2613 ( online )
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Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 32.5 " N , 8 ° 15 ′ 44.8" E