Rheineck Jewish cemetery
The Rheineck Jewish Cemetery in Rheineck, a district of Bad Breisig in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate , is a protected cultural monument .
The Jewish cemetery of Rheineck is located in a wooded area at the foot of Rheineck Castle . It was probably created in the 16th century for the Jews in Rheineck and Breisig . The oldest of the 27 remaining tombstones is from 1621. The cemetery was occupied until 1878 and the tombstones are mostly made of basalt . Even after the Bonn university professor and later Prussian minister of culture Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg acquired Rheineck Castle in 1832 , the Jewish families from Niederbreisig, Oberbreisig and Rheineck were still allowed to occupy the cemetery.
In 1975 Rheineck Castle got a new owner and he had a fence built right through the cemetery. The Jewish community of Koblenz , which protested unsuccessfully , then had the remaining tombstones moved to the new Jewish cemetery in Bad Breisig. Two gravestones remained in the castle area: the stone for the musician David Berg, who was the last to be buried in the Jewish cemetery in 1873, and the tomb, broken in half, for a Ms. Hitzel, a daughter of the headmaster Michael Ha-Kohen who was married in Breisig Deutz , who was buried here in 1719. In 1987, on the initiative of the Romanian sculptor Ladis Schwartz , who lives in Bonn , with the support of the Catholic Church , the intervention in the cemetery was reversed and the city of Breisig took over the cemetery grounds in 1988. Now it has been restored and the tombstones brought back.
The Jewish community had a new Jewish cemetery built north of Breisig am Kesselberg in 1878 . The cemetery area is 5.74 ares and four tombstones are still there. The cemetery was occupied from 1878 to 1925.
literature
- Yehuda T. Radday, Carl Bertram Hommen: The tombs of Rheineck Castle, On the history of the former little country Breisig and the former Rheineck rule . Self-published, Bad Breisig 1983 (2nd edition, Andernach 2009), ( contributions to the history of the city and monastery of Essen 97, ISSN 0341-9088 ).
- Carl Bertam Hommen: Bad Breisig . In: Hans Warnecke (Hrsg.): Evidence of Jewish life in the Ahrweiler district . ARE-Buchhandlung, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1998, ISBN 3-929154-23-4 , pp. 37-42.
Web links
- Rheineck Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Jewish cemetery Rheineck at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- Digital edition - Jewish cemetery Rheineck-Bad Breisig, old cemetery (1621-1873 / 33 entries) of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
Ahrweiler | Bad Breisig | Bad Neuenahr | Dernau | Gelsdorf | Koenigsfeld | Niederzissen | Remagen | Rheineck | Sinzig
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 50.2 " N , 7 ° 18 ′ 43.1" E