Hinzweiler Jewish cemetery
| Jewish Cemetery | ||
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 The Jewish cemetery in Hinzweiler |
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| place | Hinzweiler | |
| Builder | Jewish community in Hinzweiler | |
| Construction year | around 1800; according to an inscription in 1870 | |
| Floor space | 1600 m² | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 35 '34 " N , 7 ° 33' 3.7" E | |
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The Jewish cemetery Hinzweiler in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate was the burial place of the dead from Bosenbach , Eßweiler , Oberweiler im Tal , Hinzweiler , Aschbach and, until 1892, Lauterecken . It was laid out around 1800 and the last burial took place in the 1920s. The cemetery is a protected cultural monument .
history
According to the inscription on the gate of the cemetery area, it has existed since 1870. However, when the original cadastre for Hinzweiler was drawn up in 1845, the representative of the Jewish community in Hinzweiler stated that the burial place was 47 decimal (about 1600 m² ) and, Notarized since 1836 that an equally large neighboring former arable land is owned by the Jewish community in Hinzweiler. It is believed that it was created around 1800.
There were special roads between the villages that belonged to the Jewish communities and that also used to transport the dead to the cemetery. There is a well-known “Judenweg” between Bosenbach via Jettenbach to Eßweiler and between Nerzweiler and Hinzweiler. This was mistakenly not included in the plans when measuring for the original cadastre in 1842, the areas were added to the fields. In 1859 the Jewish community leaders complained to the Kusel Land Commissioner that the old path through the plowing was now just a footpath.
In 1875 there were no more Jews living in Hinzweiler, the synagogue there was sold in 1871. On December 1, 1904, the cemetery became the property of the Jewish community of Eßweiler, which also included the Jews from Bosenbach and Oberweiler im Tal. With the dissolution of the Jewish community of Eßweiler on January 24, 1906, the cemetery became the property of the Jewish community of Kusel .
Part of the proceeds from the sale of the synagogue in Eßweiler should be used for the maintenance of the cemetery. In 1908, the Kusel synagogue committee visited the cemetery after complaints about the neglect of the complex. At that time, however, it was concluded that fencing the open north side of the site, which was surrounded by arable land and domestic animals were used as grazing land, was not necessary, as the graves were fenced off and thus protected. The hedge of thorns that surrounded the cemetery in a semicircle would be cut back. The dispute over the maintenance of the cemetery between the remaining Jews from Eßweiler and Oberweiler in the valley and the municipal administration in Kusel was carried through to the district rabbi. After taking part in a funeral in Hinzweiler in 1909, he asked the Kusel parish council to repair the cemetery. In 1910, the entire site was finally enclosed by a wire fence.
Due to the decrease in the Jewish population in the villages, in 1906 only two Jewish families lived in Eßweiler, the number of burials decreased. After 1912 there was only one funeral in 1922. During National Socialism , the cemetery was not desecrated, but the area was not maintained any further and became increasingly overgrown.
Today's plant
In the 1960s, the remaining tombstones were collected by the local community in Hinzweiler. The cemetery was given its current appearance in the early 1970s. At that time, the found tombstones, a total of 57, which were originally distributed over three locations on the site, were newly placed in a row of two, but the grave surrounds and plinths were not restored for easier maintenance. Most of the tombstones are made of sandstone slabs. Many have Hebrew inscriptions on the front and German inscriptions on the reverse, which are badly weathered and in some cases hardly legible.
Today's owner is the Jewish community of Rheinpfalz Kdö.R. based in Speyer , the local community Hinzweiler takes care of it.
literature
- Bernhard Kukatzki : The Jewish cemetery in Hinzweiler. Beit Olam for Aschbach, Bosenbach, Eßweiler, Hinzweiler, Lauterecken and Oberweiler in the valley. Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Pfalz, Landau in der Pfalz 2008.
