Lünen Jewish cemetery

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Memorial stone at the former Jewish cemetery on Münsterstrasse

The Jewish cemetery Lünen is a former Jewish cemetery in the city of Lünen in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is also known as the Judenberg. The cemetery, located in Lünen-Nord , is a listed building.

history

The cemetery, which was originally outside the city center - today's Lünen-Nord - on Münsterstrasse, at the corner of Goethestrasse and Lessingstrasse, served as a burial place for the Jewish community from 1690 to 1939 . Towards the end of the 19th century it was given an enclosure wall with an iron gate. The move next to the evangelical cemetery at Wüstenknapp, which was planned in 1909, came to nothing. In 1938 the tombstones were smashed and removed. In most cases these were used as gravel in road construction. The next year the bones were brought to the Old Cemetery at the Jewish Cemetery (Brambauer) . A simple plaque, based on a photo from 1988, bore the inscription:

"This is where the remains rest, which were transferred from the Jewish cemetery in Lünen to here in 1939".

Siegmund Kniebel, Albert Bruch and Waldemar Elsoffer were the three victims of the November pogroms in Lünen in 1938 . Since the cemetery in their hometown no longer existed, they were buried in the Jewish part of the main cemetery in Dortmund . (see also: List of stumbling blocks in Lünen )

In 1949 a lawn with a memorial stone was built on a small part of the site. According to a picture from 1988, the stone bears the simple inscription:

"(Star of David) Jewish Cemetery 1690 - 1939"

In the 1990s, the cemetery was redesigned; The Lüner sculptor Reinhold Schröder created a MONUMENT from granite, bronze and birch trees.

The civil status files (death register) of the city archive in Lünen list 70 deceased people of Jewish faith for the period from 1822 to 1874.

literature

  • Diethard Aschoff, Hess, Niklowitz History of the Jews in Lünen , Lünen 1988
  • Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Lünen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Luenen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • The Jewish cemetery in Lünen on the website of the city of Lünen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old cemetery. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  2. ^ Brambauer Jewish cemetery

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 9.8 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 55.2 ″  E