Werne Jewish cemetery

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The Jewish cemetery in Werne is located on the "southwest corner" of the old town of Werne ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) between the Schüttenwall and the city ​​wall . It is now around 700 m², its original size is unknown. Today there are 37 graves with 35 tombstones ( mazewot ) in the cemetery .

history

Since when the cemetery served the Jewish community as a burial place cannot be documented. A council minutes of the city of Werne from November 23, 1698 confirms that the Jewish community has owned its cemetery "on the Schüttenwall" since ancient times. In 1779 the Jewish community expanded the existing cemetery, the price of the property purchased was 25 thalers. According to the official burial register, 71 people of Jewish faith died in Werne from 1822 to 1875. The last funeral took place in 1942. The cemetery has been a listed building since March 21, 1985 .

details

  • The oldest tombstone is from 1702/1703. On the 22nd of Tammuz 5463 (July 22nd, 1703) a Match died, she was the daughter of Menachem. On the right part of this stone a male person is named. His father was Abraham. The inscription on the stone does not reveal whether this person died on the first day of the Feast of Weeks in 1703.
  • The Hebrew epitaph says that a Shalotcha wife of Isaac died on 5th Tammuz 5634 (June 20th 1874).
  • According to the burial register, Charlotte Silberberg died on June 25, 1874 at the age of 45, her husband was the businessman Isaac Bendix.
  • On July 17, 1942, Sofie Herz died. Blumenthal, she was the last Jewish woman to be buried. Her husband Philipp died on April 6, 1917. The tombstone also bears the name of her daughter Helene or Lena. She was born on February 23, 1896 in Werne and murdered in Auschwitz .

literature

  • Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 .
  • Heidelore Fertig-Möller: "Jews in Werne" Landesbildstelle Westfalen, issue 4 Westphalian cultural history

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Werne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Werne, serial no. 21 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 18, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.probuerger.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 40.9 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 2.2"  E