Dülmen Jewish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery is a monument on Kapellenweg in Dülmen in the Coesfeld district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
A Jewish burial place was probably already there at the end of the 16th century, and there is evidence that it has existed since 1620 at the latest. It was located in front of the Lüdinghauser Tor from 1796 to 1937. A second cemetery was laid out in 1905 at the current location, which has been the cemetery of the Protestant community since 1898. The tombstones from the old cemetery were placed here in 1937. The cemetery was desecrated in 1938. The surrounding wall was destroyed on the north side during the air raids in 1945. In 1963 it was reduced by an unoccupied part, this part being given to the Evangelical Church Community. The originally symmetrical complex was accessed from the neo-baroque gate via the avenue . The gate itself comes from the Villa Schlieker on Nonnenwall, which was destroyed in the Second World War. The relocated tombstones are in the western part, these are mostly simple steles , three of which are made of metal. The elaborate mausoleum of the Bendix family, in which Meyer Bendix and his wife Sara b. Spanjaard are buried, stands elevated at the end of the avenue. The mausoleum is a pseudoperipteros of the Doric order, with embossed blocks and slender columns. It stands on a flat podium.
Hermann Leeser, the namesake of the municipal secondary school, was also buried in the cemetery.
literature
- Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
- Erik Potthoff, Dietmar Rabich: Dülmen - yesterday and today . 1st edition. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89960-397-2 , Dülmen - Outside the Rings, Alter Jüdischer Friedhof / Evangelischer und Jüdischer Friedhof, p. 112 f., 138 f .
Web links
- History and photos (accessed April 1, 2012)
- Erik Potthoff: Die Lüdinghauser Straße around 1938 and today , in: Dülmener Heimatblätter , Heft 2, 2009, p. 32 (e-book), p. 87 (print). (accessed April 1, 2012)
- Dülmen (New Cemetery). 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 ; Version: December 2002
- Dülmen (old cemetery). 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 ; Version: December 2002
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 18.2 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 52 ″ E