Jewish cemetery (Xanten)
The Jüdische Friedhof Xanten is a Jewish cemetery in the town of Xanten in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The burial site is located south of Xanten am Heesberg, a few hundred meters south of Gelderner Straße and can be reached via Heeser Weg.
history
A Jewish community in Xanten already existed in the early modern period. It belonged to the synagogue community of Geldern and was attached to the Alps in 1932 . The unfounded Xanten ritual murder accusations of 1891/92 resulted in riots and caused the emigration of numerous Jewish families here and elsewhere. The size of the Xanten Jewish community was 46 in 1806, 85 in 1890, 46 in 1895, 14 in 1930 and 19 in 1932. A synagogue is documented for the year 1787, this or a successor building was devastated in 1938 and then destroyed.
There was probably a Jewish cemetery in Xanten as early as the 12th century. The oldest gravestone of the tombs arranged here in three concentric circles dates to 1770, the youngest to 1928. During the November pogrom of 1938 , the Jewish cemetery remained largely unscathed. The burial place is now open to the public.
literature
- Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007, p. 93 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 .
Web links
- Entry on the Jewish cemetery on Heesberg in Xanten in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
- Xanten. In: Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine. SZ. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: North Rhine-Westphalia. Editor: Claudia Pohl. ; Version: December 2002
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 44 " N , 6 ° 26 ′ 59" E