Ledderken Jewish cemetery

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Ledderken Jewish cemetery

The Ledderken Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Witten . There are still around 130 tombstones in the closed cemetery of the former Jewish community . The cemetery is owned by the regional association of the Jewish communities of Westphalia-Lippe . It is registered as an architectural monument in the city's list of monuments .

Location and name

The cemetery is located in Witten-Mitte and borders the nurses ' cemetery of the Evangelical Hospital and the nurses' park . The name Ledderken (from Mnd. Ledder = head ) is derived from the street of the same name in which the cemetery is located.

history

Memorial stone for the Jewish cemetery on the Helenenberg

The oldest Jewish cemetery was on the Helenenberg and was officially opened in 1867, but closed again in 1900 because it could no longer be expanded. It was leveled in the time of National Socialism . Today there is a memorial stone on the site . Some of the tombstones were put up again in the Ledderken cemetery .

Gravestones in the back
Memorial stone from 1993

The Ledderken Jewish Cemetery was opened in 1893 . By 1941, 209 people were buried on the approximately 1720 m² site. In May 1939, the deaconess house bought the unoccupied part of the cemetery as part of the "Aryanizations" . In World War II, some were graves probably by a bomb crater destroyed. In 1944 the city council of Witten decided to acquire the cemetery and convert it into a public park , but this was no longer realized. In the early 1950s, the cemetery was awarded to the Jewish Trust Corporation . The deaconess house made an additional payment. The cemetery has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Westphalia-Lippe since 1962 .

Current condition

Today there are about 130 tombstones in the cemetery. In the back there are some newer graves, the most recent from 1989 (as of September 2012). In 1993 a memorial stone was set up in the cemetery listing all the concentration camps known up to that point in which Jews from Witten were murdered. The cemetery is only accessible for guided tours or special occasions. Care is provided by the city of Witten.

particularities

Some non-Jewish spouses were also buried in the cemetery.

Other Jewish cemeteries in Witten

Another Jewish cemetery is in Herbede . Memorial stones for destroyed Jewish cemeteries are on the municipal cemetery Witten-Annen and the Helenenberg .

See : Judaism in Witten # Friedhöfe

literature

  • Martina Kliner-Lintzen, Siegfried Pape: "... you can't forget that". Witten Jews under National Socialism . Ed .: City of Witten. Publishing house Dr. Dieter Winkler, Bochum 1991, ISBN 3-924517-44-4 .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Witten-Mitte)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Hildebrand: Witten. Streets, paths, squares . With a contribution to the history of Witten settlement by Heinrich Schoppmeyer (=  contributions to the history of the city of Witten . Volume 1 ). VOHM , Witten 1989, ISBN 3-920611-13-6 ( street directory ( Memento from May 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed December 27, 2012]). Witten. Streets, paths, squares ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2006 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.annen-city.de
  2. ↑ Witten. In: Jewish cemeteries in Germany. December 2002, accessed March 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Martina Kliner-Fruck: Cemeteries. Places of city history. A small excursus on cemetery and funeral services in Witten . In: Cemeteries in Witten . Prowiss-Verlag, Gladbeck 2005, p. 20-26 .
  4. ^ A b Hans-Christian Dahlmann: "Aryanization" and society in Witten. How the population of a city in the Ruhr area took over the property of its Jews . 2nd Edition. Lit Verlag , Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-5662-5 ( reviews and excerpts, some as audio files [accessed on December 27, 2012]). Reviews and excerpts, some as audio files ( memento of the original from March 5, 2014 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hcdahlmann.de
  5. ↑ a b Martina Kliner-Lintzen: Speech at the Ledderken Jewish Cemetery . In: Stadt Witten, the city director (ed.): Jewish meeting week of the city of Witten from May 1 to 8, 1991. A documentation . 1st edition. Publishing house Dr. Dieter Winkler, Bochum 1991, p. 32 .
  6. ↑ a b Michael Winkler: The Readers' Council writes here. Stele commemorates murdered Jews from Witten . In: WAZ . March 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ Jewish cemetery, Ledderken. City of Witten, accessed on March 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Stone is supposed to remember the victims of the Holocaust. Memorial hour at the Ledderken cemetery . In: WAZ . March 15, 1993.
  9. ↑ cemeteries. City of Witten, accessed on March 22, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '47.4 "  N , 7 ° 20' 25.9"  E