Judenkever Buckau

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Parcel with the name Juden Kaefer south of Buckau on a map from 1775, map not aligned, north is on the left

The Judenkever is a former Jewish cemetery in the Buckau district of the city of Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The cemetery was located south of the village of Buckau on the west bank of the Sülze in the immediate vicinity of its confluence with the Elbe . The area formed the northwestern part of the Wolfswerder . To the south, the parcel of swallow shores joined.

history

The exact time when the cemetery was founded is unclear. However, documentary mentions already exist from the years 1312 and 1383. During these years, the Jewish community acquired land from Berge monastery to expand the cemetery. The Jewish population lived further north in a settlement south of the city walls of Magdeburg. The Jewish community was allowed to surround the cemetery with a wall and had a way to the burial site.

In 1493, however, the Jewish population was expelled on the orders of Archbishop Ernst . The cemetery was abandoned and turned into arable land. Both the Sudenburg and the Berge monastery made claims on the area. The cathedral chapter of Magdeburg decided in favor of the Sudenburg. In 1585 the land was sold to the Berge monastery by Chamber Councilor Bertram.

At times, a parcel with the name Jodenkever or joden Kieffer was also available to the respective ferry owners of the Westerhüsen ferry, which is located significantly further south .

In 1841 a woman Pastor Hoffmann sold the arable land to a JWA Siegrist from Amsterdam . To the south of the property, a road led from Schönebecker Strasse to Sülze. Siegrist built a sulfuric acid factory on the property , in which the merchants C. Rammelberg and Louis Coqui took a stake in 1845, who later ran the factory as Coqui & Rammelberg . The factory was expanded both in terms of space and its product range. In 1847, Morgenstrasse was built on a section of the Judenkevers, which at that time belonged to the factory director of the United Hamburg-Magdeburg Steamship Compagnie Albrecht Tischbein and was used as a field. Other industrial uses followed.

At the end of the 19th century it was reported that digging sometimes uncovered graves. A tombstone with a well-preserved inscription was still at least in 1887 in a corner of the small front garden of the chemical factory.

literature

  • Christian A. Schmidt: Chronicle of the city of Buckau. Friese & Fuhrmann, Magdeburg 1887, pp. 8, 10 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Großhennig: Ortschronik von Westerhüsen in the city district of Magdeburg-SO. Manuscript in the Magdeburg City Archives, signature 80 / 1035n, Part I, p. 106 f.
  2. ^ CA Schmidt: Chronicle of the city of Buckau. 1887, p. 117 ff.
  3. ^ CA Schmidt: Chronicle of the city of Buckau. 1887, p. 123.

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 26.4 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 32.8"  E