Dernau Jewish cemetery
The Dernau Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Dernau in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is a protected cultural monument .
The Jewish community of Dernau has been documented since 1609/1619.
The exact time the cemetery was built is not known, but it is likely to have been in the second half of the 18th century. This would make the Jewish cemetery Dernau the oldest in the Ahr valley . The last burial took place in 1942: Emma Bear, Minna Bear and Moses Bear. The sons of Moses and Minna Bär, Arthur and Siegfried, were deported . The third son Julius Baer, who emigrated to the USA in 1936 , had the tombstone erected after 1945.
The cemetery is located two kilometers north of Dernau in a depression at the edge of the forest on the K 35 road to Grafschaft- Esch and is 300 m² in size. The 19 tombstones still in existence today are not arranged in the chronological order of the burials. They are simply designed without the common symbols like blessing priest hands , Star of David or Levitic jug .
In a private project by Dernauer, Ahrweiler and Israeli citizens, a new gate to the Dernauer cemetery was built and inaugurated together in October 2015. The iron gate shows the menorah, the Star of David and two writing plates in Hebrew and German.
literature
- Annemarie Müller-Feldmann: The Jewish cemetery in Dernau . In: Hans Warnecke (Hrsg.): Evidence of Jewish life in the Ahrweiler district . ARE-Buchhandlung, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1998, ISBN 3-929154-23-4 , pp. 46–54, (documentation of the 19 tombstones).
Web links
- Dernau Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Dernau Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
Ahrweiler | Bad Breisig | Bad Neuenahr | Dernau | Gelsdorf | Koenigsfeld | Niederzissen | Remagen | Rheineck | Sinzig
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 13.3 " N , 7 ° 2 ′ 11.8" E