Hiltrops Kamp Jewish cemetery

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Hiltrops Kamp Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Hiltrops Kamp in Essen district Steele is a Jewish cemetery in the street Hiltrops Kamp.

history

The Jewish community in Steele (including town and country, plus those in the mayor's office in Rellinghausen , and later also the Jews living in Überruhr , Königssteele and Horst ) slowly grew from around 1800. In 1858 still a branch of the synagogue community in Essen, the community became independent in 1879. The size of the congregation was 95 in 1822, 174 in 1885 and 140 in 1932. A synagogue is mentioned in 1791, and new buildings were built in 1802 and 1883. The latter Steeler Synagogue was set on fire during the November pogroms in 1938 and subsequently laid down.

The Hiltrops Kamp cemetery is the younger of the two Jewish cemeteries that can be identified in Steele, inaugurated in 1855 and occupied until 1943 (an older burial site was the Jewish cemetery on Knottenberg , used from the 17th to the 19th century). Today the walled and locked Hiltrops Kamp cemetery with around 150 to 155 gravestones in the middle of newer residential buildings has been preserved. It has been a listed building since 1989.

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literature

  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part II. Administrative region of Düsseldorf . Cologne 2000, pp. 119–121 (articles on architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.2)
  • Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007, pp. 83–84 ( Geschichtlicher Atlas der Rheinlande , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Hiltrops Kamp  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 54 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 3 ″  E