Gau-Odernheim Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery in Gau-Odernheim

The Jewish cemetery Gau-Odernheim is located on the first hill to the Petersberg between the two Rhineland-Palatinate local communities Gau-Odernheim and Bechtolsheim , the so-called Scharlenberg , on the Gau-Odernheim area. The Jewish cemetery, laid out in 1848, with an area of ​​10.8 acres, is located north of the village on Bechtolsheimer Weg and is a protected cultural monument . The cemetery is not open to the public, it can only be visited after registering in the town hall of the local community of Gau-Odernheim or during tours of the history association.

The Jewish cemetery is protected in accordance with Section 3 (1) in conjunction with Section 5 (5) of the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act.

history

A first Jewish cemetery was located between the city wall and today's upper Brunnenstrasse in the 18th century. The site was sold in 1919 and nothing is left of the cemetery today.

The dead of the Jewish community of Bechtolsheim were also buried in today's cemetery. The cemetery has an area of ​​10.80 ares and today there are still 46 tombstones ( mazewot ) from the 1880s. The last surviving tombstone was placed for Jakob Rüb, who died on February 19, 1935. The tombstones are in three rows on a concrete strip. These are mainly simple sandstones in mostly rectangular stelae shape, some with tracery and plants in relief. There is a high proportion of black hard stone from the last covering phase. A cemetery desecration is reported for the first time in 1935, the traces of the destruction are still visible today.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
• History in Synagogues 2005: "... and this is the gate of heaven". Synagogues: Rhineland-Palatinate-Saarland. Edited by Stefan Fischbach and Ingrid Westerhoff, editors Joachim Glatz and Meier Schwarz. Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate with the State Conservatory Office of the Saarland and the Synagogue Memorial Jerusalem (= Memorial Book of Synagogues in Germany, Vol. 2), Mainz 2005, p. 162.
• Dieter Peters and Martina Strehlen: Jewish cemeteries, burial sites, memorials in Rhineland-Palatinate. In: Sachor. Contributions to Jewish history and memorial work in Rhineland-Palatinate, 8 (1998) 2, issue 16, pp. 53 and 59.
• Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany: Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate Volume 20.1: District of Alzey-Worms . Verbandsgemeinde Alzey-Land . Published on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Science, Further Education and Culture by the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate Directorate State Monument Preservation. Edited by Michael Huyer and Dieter Krienke. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-327-5 , p. 264.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Gau-Odernheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jewish cemetery Gau-Odernheim at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Gau-Odernheim Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
• The historical Gau-Odernheim a tour; by Bernd Manz and Ernst Mayer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jewish cemetery in Gau-Odernheim on alemannia-judaica.de
2. ^ Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate; P. 264

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '23.7 "  N , 8 ° 11' 35.2"  E