Jewish cemetery Werdener Strasse (Ratingen)

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The Jewish cemetery Werdener Straße is a Jewish cemetery in Ratingen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The former burial place is on Werdener Strasse.

history

The Jewish community in Ratingen existed continuously from the end of the 16th century until the time of National Socialism . Since 1858 Ratingen was a branch of the synagogue district of Düsseldorf. The size of the small congregation was 47 in 1828, 103 in 1861, and 24 in 1927. There is evidence of a prayer room in 1769, and around 1817 a new synagogue building was inaugurated on Bechemer Strasse, which was used until the 1920s. The building had to be sold in 1936 and was demolished in 1940.

The Jewish cemetery on Werdener Strasse ("Judenlindgen") was laid out before 1783 and was occupied until 1937. On the night of November 10, 1938, the burial site was devastated and leveled a short time later. Today it has been preserved as a green area, where the murdered Ratinger Jews have been commemorated on November 9th every year since 1959. Gravestones are no longer preserved, but a memorial stone erected in 1946 with the inscription: "The humiliated bones will cheer." (Loosely based on Psalm 51:10, in which it actually says: "Let me hear joy and bliss, that the bones that you have smashed become happy.") The cemetery was redesigned in 2013.

literature

  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part II. Administrative region of Düsseldorf . Cologne 2000, pp. 408–412 (articles on architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.2)
  • Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century . Bonn 2007 ( Historical Atlas of the Rhineland , VIII.8), ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2

Web links

  • Ratingen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See steel panel recalls victims (article in WZ Newsline).

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 58.1 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 59.4 ″  E