Jewish cemetery in Herne
The Herne Jewish Cemetery is located on Robert-Grabski-Straße in the Baukau -Ost district of Herne .
history
It was not until 1889 that the Jews in Herne broke away from the Bochum synagogue community and founded an independent community. Before that, in 1878, leading members of the Jewish community ( Salomon Weinberg and comrades ) acquired a plot of land about two kilometers outside of Herne to create a burial ground. Until 1889, the facility, which was restored in 1879, remained a private burial place. In 1900 a Chewra Kadisha was founded. The oldest known cemetery regulation dates from 1903.
System and occupancy
Between 1900 and 1914 a 932 m² part of the property was walled as a cemetery. There are 120 tombstones within this enclosure, the oldest to the left of the entrance. Among them the oldest from the year 1881. Most of the grave inscriptions are in two languages, the younger ones, however, often exclusively in German. Burials took place until 1942 and from 1945 to 1959. Quite a few gravestones were damaged by vandalism and desecration, with the Nazi era in 1974, 1975 and 1979 continuing.
Südfriedhof
In 1903, the then chairman of the synagogue community in Herne, Moritz Gans , applied for a cemetery to be allocated to the south cemetery . He explicitly asked "for ritual reasons ... to choose a place for us which, according to its location, is such that it is not necessary to go past the other cemeteries to get to ours". The assigned row of graves in Department XV was, contrary to the procedure otherwise customary in the Ruhr area , neither delimited separately nor given an unlimited rest period. When the waiting period expired, the grave sites - there were seven until 1933 - were cleared and re-occupied. The grave area did not find greater acceptance in the liberal synagogue community of Herne. After the end of the Second World War , a new cemetery was set up.
Tombs in honor of Jewish fallen in World War I are not found on any of the facilities in Herne, as their traces were removed during the “Third Reich” .
See also
literature
- Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part V: Arnsberg district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 1.3 ) JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1449-7 , pp. 178–187 and illustrations 124–126.
- Alexander von Knorre: 100 objects in Herne - an art and cultural history guide through the city. PubliCreation publishing house, Herne 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813266-0-4 , p. 26.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part V: Arnsberg district.
- ↑ Alexander von Knorre: 100 objects in Herne - an art and cultural history guide through the city.
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '25 " N , 7 ° 12' 48.3" E