Merzig Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Merzig was laid out in the 1740s and first mentioned in a document on May 21, 1748.

location

The cemetery is located at the foot of the Kreuzberg in Merzig, northeast of the city center. Thus, the cemetery was outside the town at the time it was built. The cemetery can only be reached via a hiking trail. It has no direct road connection.

history

Memorial plaque Moses Levy

The Jews from Merzig, Brotdorf and Hilbringen were buried here as early as 1748 and no longer had to be buried in Freudenburg , in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate . At the beginning of the 20th century, the cemetery was expanded in 1904 and 1910 respectively. At the time of National Socialism , the cemetery was destroyed and largely cleared in 1938. In 1949 it was repaired as far as possible. The last burial took place in 1978. At the end of February 2006 the cemetery was desecrated and several tombstones were torn out.

memorial

Since 1949 there has been a memorial stone in the cemetery for the former Rabbi Moses Isack Levy, known as Reb Mosche Merzig. A street in Merzig was named in his honor. Another memorial stone designed by the Saarland sculptor Paul Schneider was inaugurated in 2004 in the Park of Dissenters .

Web links

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

• Description of the cemetery at Alemannia Judaica (accessed October 4, 2014)
• About Rabbi Moses Isack Levy (accessed October 4, 2014)
• Merzig celebrates the 150th anniversary of the death of Reb Mosche Merzig (accessed October 4, 2014)
• Merzig. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Saarland (editor: Felicitas Grützmann)
• Congregation history (accessed June 4, 2019)
• Merzig 162 inscriptions (1861-1978). Digital edition in the epigraphic database Epidat of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alfred Diwersy / Hans Kerkes: Reb Moshe Merzig and the Jewish history of the city . Gollenstein, Merzig 2012, pp. 192-199, ISBN 978-3-86390-000-7 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '48.1 "  N , 6 ° 38' 17.5"  E