Langenfelde Jewish cemetery

The Langenfelde cemetery

The Langenfelde cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Langenfelde is a Jewish burial place in Langenfelde in the Hamburg district of Stellingen .

description

In the mid-1870s, the Hamburg Senate decided to build a new non-denominational central cemetery outside the inner city in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf . The German-Israelitische (DIG) and the Portuguese-Jewish Congregation (PJG) were given a separate, but not peculiar burial place at the Ohlsdorf cemetery an der Ilandkoppel, as there was no longer enough space available in the Jewish cemetery in the Grindelviertel . However, the Orthodox members of the Jewish community resolutely refused to do so because of halachic injuries. They insisted on buying a cemetery property 'forever'. After the Senate refused to sell the Jewish community, a small group of devout Jews looked for a suitable cemetery property outside of the Hamburg area. However, the resistance to the plan of this Orthodox minority was so great that various attempts to buy it failed. After 10 years of conflict, an intervention from Otto von Bismarck's Reich Chancellery finally helped the project to be successful. In 1887 the group around Rabbi Anschel Stern (1820–1888) and represented by the orthodox Hamburg teaching institute "United Old and New Klaus" was able to purchase a 5722 m² piece of land in Stellingen-Langenfelde in Prussia. Nothing stood in the way of creating a cemetery that was permitted under religious law 'for eternity'. The cemetery was inaugurated on February 20, 1887.

Around 2,000 burials took place in the cemetery between 1887 and 1941. In order to have enough space in the long term, between 1893 and 1900 additional adjacent properties were purchased, so that the cemetery area ultimately comprised 25,364 m². After 1945, with a few exceptions, there were no more funerals in the cemetery. Today only the actually occupied part of the site is owned by the Jewish community.

Personalities

• Isaac Halevy [Rabinowitz] (1847–1914): Rabbi and historian from Belarus. From 1900 teacher at the Levin-Salomon-Klaus in Hamburg. His two meter high tombstone is the largest in the cemetery. It is a sign of the appreciation that his students showed him.
• Benjamin Sealtiel (1874–1934) and Helene Sealtiel, b. Wormser (1871–1938): Orthodox Portuguese merchant couple, parents of the later Israeli general David Sealtiel (1903–1969).
• Anschel Stern (1820–1888): Rabbi in Hamburg since 1851, from 1867 chief rabbi in Hamburg for the Orthodox believers grouped together in the Synagogue Association. Founder of the religious learning association Mekor Chajim (1862) and teacher at the Talmud Tora boys' school, which was recognized as a higher middle school in 1869.
• Moritz M. Warburg (1838–1910) and Charlotte Esther Warburg, b. Oppenheim (1842–1921): Parents of the so-called 'Famous Five' of the Warburg banking family: Aby, Paul, Max, Felix and Fritz. The cultural scientist Aby Warburg founded the cultural studies library. His brothers Paul Warburg , Max Warburg , Felix Warburg and Fritz Moritz Warburg were internationally renowned bankers and political advisors.
• Daniel Wormser (1840–1900): educator, patron and founder. From 1864 teacher at the Talmud Tora School. In the 1880s, great efforts were made for impoverished, Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe. 1884 Foundation of the Israelite Support Association for the Homeless, which offered help to thousands of needy Jewish emigrants until they left for overseas.
• Gottschalk Eliakim Schlesinger (1813–1900): Rabbi in Hamburg.

literature

• Hess, Oliver: The Beth ha-chajjim - House of Life in Stellingen-Langenfelde. A Jewish cemetery in the tension between reform and orthodoxy, (unpublished state examination thesis) Hamburg 1995.
• Studemund-Halévy, Michael: In the Jewish Hamburg. A city guide from A to Z, Hamburg 2011.

See also

• Jewish cemeteries in Hamburg
• History of the Jews in Hamburg

Web links

The Jewish cemeteries in Hamburg . From Albrecht Schreiber

• therein: Jewish cemetery Langenfelde (photos)
• Website of the Altona Jewish Cemetery
• Institute for the History of the German Jews (IGdJ)
• Website The Jewish Hamburg
• Database with details of burials

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburg: Jüdischer Friedhof Langenfelde ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 42 "  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 47"  E