Jewish cemetery in Lazarettstrasse

The Jüdische Friedhof Lazarettstrasse was a Jewish cemetery in the western part of the city of Essen .

history

The Jewish cemetery on Lazarettstrasse (formerly Hope Street) was occupied from 1837 to 1923. There are no gravestones here; About 36 tombstones were transferred during the Second World War to the Jewish burial site in the park cemetery in Huttrop , which has been occupied since 1931 , where they have been preserved to this day.

The location of the former Jewish cemetery, which was built over in the 1970s, is hardly visible today. However, there is a memorial stone with the text

"In memory of the former Jewish cemetery Lazarettstrasse"

The doctor and city councilor of the city of Essen, Moses Hirschland , who died in 1888 , was buried in this cemetery. In addition, the son Ernst of the preacher, teacher and politician Moses Blumenfeld , who died as a child, was buried here in 1866 .

literature

• Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part II. Administrative region of Düsseldorf . Cologne 2000, pp. 105–118 (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, p. 39 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 .

Web links

• Entry on the old Jewish cemetery in Lazarettstrasse in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on September 18, 2018.
• Essen (Lazarettstrasse) In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hagalil.com: Jewish life online ; accessed on September 18, 2018
2. ↑ Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 13.8 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 18 ″  E