Glehn Jewish cemetery

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View of the cemetery from the north

The Glehn Jewish cemetery is a little off Bendstrasse in the Korschenbroich district of Glehn in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Glehn was a branch community of the Neuss synagogue community , to which it was affiliated in 1932. The size of the congregation was 37 in 1806, 45 in 1828, 66 in 1885 and 35 in 1935. A synagogue had existed since around 1716. A new building was inaugurated in 1879, which was devastated during the November pogroms in 1938 and converted for residential purposes after the building was sold in the 1950s.

The first cemetery used by Glehn Jews before 1861 was in the village of Liedberg (where no Jews lived). After 1861 a second cemetery was laid out in Bendstrasse; 28 gravestones are still preserved here.

literature

  • Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 2: District of Düsseldorf (= contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland. Vol. 34, 2). Bachem, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7616-1444-6 , pp. 476-479.
  • Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century (= Historical Atlas of the Rhineland . Supplement. 8, 8 = Publications of the Society for Rhenish History. NF Dept. 12, 1b, Lfg. 10). Habelt, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 , p. 41.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 19.6 ″  N , 6 ° 34 ′ 1.8 ″  E