Remscheid-Bliedinghausen Jewish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery in Remscheid is part of the municipal cemetery and is located in the Remscheid district of Bliedinghausen ; this is located right next to the evangelical south cemetery. The Jewish cemetery has been under monument protection since February 14, 2006 with the number 658 .
history
The first documentary mention of Jews in Remscheid has been since 1694 and 1763.
The first recorded burial of a Jew in this cemetery was in 1906, the last in 1994.
Not all Jews from Remscheid were buried in the cemetery itself; the particularly pious Jews were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Cologne (Decksteiner Strasse) . The Jews of the Elberfeld synagogue community , to which Remscheid belonged, were buried in one of the Wuppertal Jewish cemeteries.
Most of the burials took place in the 1920s, as travel became increasingly difficult at that time. The row graves date from around 1938. At this time, Orthodox families also buried their dead there. Today there are around 20 tombstones.
Burials are still possible today in the presence of a rabbi.
Web links
- Bliedinghausen In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Cemetery Bliedinghausen / The Jewish part of the cemetery on the website of Technischen Betriebe Remscheid
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Jews in Remscheid
- ↑ Stand June 2015
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 21.7 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 55.6 ″ E