Jewish cemetery Munster
The Jewish cemetery in Münster is located on Einsteinstraße, not far from the university and the Blücherkaserne. It was laid out in 1811 and served as a burial place for the Jewish community in Münster until 2002 .
In contrast to most places, there were largely no grave desecrations in connection with the November pogroms in 1938 . Years of neglect in the years of the Holocaust and the early post-war period hit the historical substance more seriously.
In the Middle Ages there was a Jewish cemetery on the school grounds of today's Paulinum Grammar School . This was leveled after the pogrom after the plague wave in 1350. The only surviving memorial stone from 1324 is in the synagogue of the Jewish community of Münster, after it was in the meantime at the newer Jewish cemetery. This is the oldest surviving Jewish tombstone in Westphalia. In 2015, the school's art course designed a memorial stone to commemorate the cemetery, which was erected on the school premises on April 29, 2015, after the financing of the 4,000 euro project was made possible by a sponsor from the economy.
Preservation and documentation
Today the cemetery is open to the public as part of the Open Monument Day , while otherwise access is reserved for the Jewish community in order to prevent vandalism . Many old graves are overgrown and in extremely poor condition because the families concerned were murdered in the Holocaust. However, part of the cemetery is being used and maintained again.
In a project in collaboration with the Jewish community, the University of Münster has created electronic documentation that has been available on the Internet since March 2015.
Graves of important people
- Alexander Haindorf (1784–1862), physician, Jewish reformer, university lecturer and co-founder of the Westphalian Art Association .
- Abraham Sutro (1784–1869), last state rabbi of Westphalia .
- Eli Marcus (1854–1935), writer and actor.
The grave of Eli Marcus' son, Ernst Marcus, who fell on the Western Front as a bearer of the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class during World War I , bears witness to the fate of the Jewish soldiers who died in the First World War from Münster.
The grave of Alexander Haindorf
The grave of Eli Marcus
The grave of Ernst Marcus, fallen in the First World War
literature
- Diethard Aschoff: Original story - using the example of the city of Münster 5 - The Jews . Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1981.
- Diethard Aschoff: Sources and regesta on the history of the Jews in the city of Münster: 1530–1650 / 1662 (Westfalia Judaica vol. 3,1). Münster 2000. ISBN 3-8258-3440-9
- Gisela Möllenhoff and Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer: Jewish families in Münster 1918-1945 . Part 2.1: Treatises and documents 1918-1935. Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 1998.
Web links
- detailed documentation: juedischer-friedhof-muenster.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Westfälische Nachrichten : Graves under the Paulinum: The school grounds once housed the Jewish cemetery - students remember it , Münster, Karin Völker, February 6, 2015
- ↑ juedischer-friedhof-muenster.de: History of the Jewish cemetery on Einsteinstrasse , Marie-Theres Wacker, accessed on August 7, 2016
- ^ A b juedischer-friedhof-muenster.de: Remembrance-cultural school project at the Paulinum grammar school in Münster: Memorial stone for the former Jewish cemetery , Thomas Deibert, Birgit Seggewiß, accessed on August 7, 2016
- ↑ "The Jewish Cemetery Culture " on www.gelsenzentrum.de.
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Paulinum plans memorial stone: Remembrance of the Jewish cemetery , Münster, Münster, April 24, 2015
- ↑ www.juedischer-friedhof-muenster.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 22.5 ″ E