Neheim Jewish cemetery

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Overview and black obelisk

The Neheim Jewish cemetery in Neheim (today a district of Arnsberg , Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was laid out in the 19th century. It was largely destroyed by the Möhne disaster in 1943 and could only be restored to a limited extent after the Second World War .

history

The beginnings of the cemetery are a bit unclear. This applies in particular to a sentence in the cemetery regulations from 1890, which Noa Wolff, as head of the Jewish community, submitted to the mayor of the city for approval. It said: "The use of this Israelite burial place goes back many years and certainly already existed at the time when Neheim was under the grand ducal city government." The Hessian period meant by this lasted from 1803 to 1816. However, the sentence was deleted again in the text. Michael Senger states 1835 as the opening year. According to other sources, the cemetery was not established by the Neheim Jewish community until around 1850.

The first known burial took place in 1860. The last one took place in 1939. After that there were supposed to have been two more funerals in the following years. The funeral tradition ended with the Holocaust . As early as 1942, there were no more Jewish residents in the city.

The cemetery is located between the banks of the Möhne and Mendener Strasse near the present-day Graf Gottfried School. When the river floods, it has been inundated almost regularly. The cemetery was probably laid out in two rows with a path in the middle. There were masonry tombs in the direction of the river .

In the course of the Möhne disaster, the cemetery was severely damaged by the water masses. Many tombs were washed away or broken. The tombs were completely destroyed. The last remains of the wall were removed in 1950 as part of the regulation of the river.

Only about 11 grave monuments were preserved or were re-erected after the Second World War. Below them is an obelisk made of polished black marble about 2 m high .

In recent years, among other things, the grave monuments of Neheim's honorary citizen Noa Wolff (died 1905) and his wife Betty (died 1875) were rediscovered during the work on the renaturation of the Ruhr . A total of five gravestones were found and placed in the cemetery on the 70th anniversary of the Möhne disaster by the Neheim-Hüsten home association.

In addition to the gravestones that have been preserved or put up again, there is also a memorial stone in the cemetery for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Neheim from Neheim. The cemetery is included in the list of monuments of the city of Arnsberg under the number DL 347 .

  • entrance

  • Memorial stone of the city of Arnsberg

  • Gravestone of the honorary citizen Noa Wolff and his wife Betty

  • Gravestones of unknown deceased, end of 19th century.

  • Gravestone of Julius and Bertha Goldberg

literature

  • Michael Senger: Searching for clues. In: Jewish life in the Hochsauerland. Fredeburg 1994, p. 373.
  • Werner Saure: Jews in Neheim and Hüsten. In: City of Arnsberg (Ed.): 625 years Neheim and Hüsten. Arnsberg 1983, p. 124 ff.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 27 ″  E