Stumbling blocks in Rastatt
The stumbling blocks in Rastatt are special paving stones in sidewalks, which are supposed to remember the victims of the National Socialist dictatorship in the Baden-Württemberg city of Rastatt in Germany .
Stumbling blocks
The Stolpersteine are a project by the artist Gunter Demnig . These small memorial plaques are intended to commemorate the fate of the people who were murdered, deported , expelled or driven to suicide during National Socialism .
Stumbling blocks are cubic concrete blocks with an edge length of ten centimeters, on the top of which there is an individually labeled brass plate . As a rule, they are set into the pavement at the same level in front of the last freely chosen houses of the Nazi victims . There are now over 61,000 stones (as of July 2017) not only in Germany, but also in 21 other European countries. The Stolpersteine are the largest decentralized memorial in the world.
At the initiative of the SPD local association Rastatt and the Catholic pastoral care unit St. Alexander / Twelve Apostles, a cross-party and cross-denominational interest group met on March 14, 2012; Since then, around 40 people from the “Initiative Stolpersteine Rastatt eV” have been coordinating the laying of the Stolpersteine.
In April 2013 , Gunter Demnig laid the first stumbling blocks in Rastatt. 58 stones have now been laid on Rastatt's sidewalks.
Laying stumbling blocks
Note: The date under the respective picture indicates when the stone was laid.
On the green 11
LIVED HERE / ALBERT MAIER / JG. 1871 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / LIBERATED / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / REGINA MAIER / GEB. HERZHEIMER / JG. 1874 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / LIBERATED / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / HELENA ERNA / SAMUEL / GEB. MAIER / JG. 1899 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / LIBERATED / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / HERBERT SAMUEL / JG. 1926 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / MURDERED 3.4.1945 / MAUTHAUSEN LIVED
HERE / HERMANN SAMUEL / JG. 1894 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / MURDERED IN / MAJDANEK
On the green 25
LIVED HERE / KAROLINE / KUPPENHEIMER / JG. 1864 / ESCAPE 1938 / SWITZERLAND
LIVED HERE / SALOMON / KUPPENHEIMER / JG. 1865 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / TOT 9/26/1944 / MONTÉLIMAR
Augustastrasse 19
Coordinates "Augustastraße 19"
LIVED HERE /FRIEDRICH RIEDINGER / ...
Augustastrasse 48
Coordinates "Augustastraße 48"
The family of the businessman Karl Nachmann survived the Holocaust: After two daughters had fled to France and the USA in 1933 and 1935, the married couple Karl and Else were able to flee to Palestine with their three younger daughters in 1937.
LIVED HERE / ALICE NACHMANN / JG. 1925 / ESCAPE 1937 / PALESTINE LIVED
HERE / EDITH NACHMANN / JG. 1920 / ESCAPE 1937 / PALESTINE LIVED
HERE / ELSE NACHMANN / BED. MAIER / JG. 1886 / ESCAPE 1937 / PALESTINE LIVED
HERE / GERTRUDE NACHMANN / JG. 1915 / ESCAPE 1935 / USA
LIVED HERE / GRETE NACHMANN / JG. 1932 / ESCAPE 1937 / PALESTINE LIVED
HERE / KARL NACHMANN / JG. 1885 / ESCAPE 1937 / PALESTINE LIVED
HERE / ROSEL NACHMANN / JG. 1911 / ESCAPE 1933 / FRANCE
Bahnhofstrasse 15
Coordinates “Bahnhofstraße 15”
HERE LIVING /ROSEL MAIER / GEB. BICKART / JG. 1894 / ESCAPE 1939 / FRANCE LIVED
HERE /SALLY MAIER / JG. 1892 / ESCAPE 1939 / FRANCE LIVED
HERE /SIEGBERT MAIER / JG. 1920 / ESCAPE 1938 / FRANCE LIVED
HERE /SIMON MAIER / JG. 1857 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / TOT11/17/1940 LIVED
HERE /SOFIE MAIER /BED. HILB / JG. 1862 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / TOT 11/17/1940
Bahnhofstrasse 27
Coordinates “Bahnhofstraße 27”
HERE LIVING /ELSA DREIFUS / GEB. WERTHEIMER / JG. 1886 / DEPORTIERT 1940 / GURS / INTERNIERT DRANCY / 1942 AUSCHWITZ / MURDERED 31.8.1942
Bahnhofstrasse 38
Coordinates "Bahnhofstraße 38"
LIVED HERE /BERTY MARGOT /WERTHEIMER / JG. 1922 / ESCAPE 1936 / FRANCE LIVED
HERE /HEINZ JOSEF /WERTHEIMER / JG. 1921 / ESCAPE 1936 / FRANCE LIVED
HERE /HERMINE WERTHEIMER / GEB. WEILL / JG. 1894 / ESCAPE 1936 / FRANCE LIVED
HERE /ISAAK WERTHEIMER / JG. 1880 / ESCAPE 1936 / FRANCE LIVED
HERE /MORITZ WERTHEIMER / JG. 1890 / ESCAPE 1936 / FRANCE
Bahnhofstrasse 44
Coordinates "Bahnhofstraße 44"
LIVED HERE /JACQUES TUESDAY / JG. 1878 / DEPORTIERT 1940 / GURS / INTERNIERT DRANCY / 1942 AUSCHWITZ / ERMORDET
Jacques Tuesday, who had his last freely chosen residence at Bahnhofstrasse 44, was the manager of the button department storeon Kaiserstrasse. When the department stores of the Freiburg Knopf family were “Aryanized”, Jacques Tuesday had to give up his post. In 1940 he was deported and murdered in Auschwitz on August 31, 1942.
Bleichstrasse 6
Coordinates “Bleichstraße 6”
LIVED HERE /MANFRED KUCH / ...
LIVED HERE /MARTIN KUCH / ...
LIVED HERE /ILSE MARTIN / ...
LIVED HERE /JOHANN NACHMANN / ...
LIVED HERE /LEOPOLD NACHMANN / ...
Dreherstrasse 10
Coordinates "Dreherstraße 10"
LIVED HERE /FRIEDA FRIEDMANN / ...
LIVED HERE /JOHANNA FRIEDMANN / ...
Josefstrasse 5
LIVED HERE / JOSEF JULIUS / MAYER / JG. 1865 / DEPORTIERT 1940 / GURS / TOT 9.1.1941
Josef Julius Mayer, called Mayer-Seppel , who was born in 1865 , ran a tobacco shop in his house in what was then Murgtalstraße 5 (today Josefstraße).
LIVED HERE / CÄCILIE MAYER / GEB. ROTHSCHILD / JG. 1866 / DEPORTED 1940 / GURS / TOT 11/4/1941
Josefstrasse 20
Coordinates "Josefstraße 20" LIVED HERE / THE NACHMANN FAMILY / ...
Kanalstrasse 4
Coordinates "Kanalstraße 4"
LIVED HERE /NICOLAUS HOF / ...
Kanalstrasse 8
Coordinates "Kanalstraße 8"
WOHNTE /KARL GEIGES / JGHERE. 1883 / IM WIDERSTAND / KPD / ARHAFTET 1944 / AKTION 'GITTER' / DACHAU / MURASSET 25.2.1945
Karl Geiges, born in 1883, was a city councilor in Rastatt from 1926 to 1928. As a communist he was persecuted from the beginning of the Nazi regime. After theReichstag election in March 1933, Geiges was taken into "protective custody" anddeported to the Heuberg concentration campat the end of May. In the years that followed he was arrested and imprisoned again and again. In the summer of 1944 hewas arrested againduring thegrating actionand deported tothe Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered in February 1945. His sonKarl Geiges jun. was active in the resistance and imprisoned several times, but survived National Socialism.
Kaiserstrasse 59
Coordinates "Kaiserstraße 59"
LIVED HERE /MARGARETE EDELSCHILD / ...
LIVED HERE /EMMA FRITZ / ...
Kapellenstrasse 9
Coordinates “Kapellenstraße 9”
LIVED HERE /ERNESTINE NACHMANN / JG. 1884 / IMPROVEDLY DELAYED / DARMSTADT / DEAD 19.1.1941 LIVED
HERE /IDA NACHMANN / JG. 1880 / INFOLIOUSLY MOVED / DARMSTADT / DEAD 5/5/1942 LIVED
HERE /MAX NACHMANN / JG. 1910 / ESCAPE 1935 / LISBON
Kapellenstrasse 17
Coordinates “Kapellenstrasse 17”
TheDreyfuss family lived inKapellenstrasse 17from 1931 onwards. According to the city register, the businessman Leofried Dreyfuß was together with his wife Herta, nee. Ettlinger, as well as the children Max Gerhard and Lotte fromFrankfurt cameto Rastatt. After a short stay, Leofried Dreyfuss emigrated toStrasbourgin July 1933and from there toSt.-Diéin theVosges, where he brought his family in October. LIVED HERE / FAMILY DREYFUSS / ...
Karlstrasse 9
Coordinates "Karlstraße 9"
LIVED HERE /MARIANNA SCHWAB / ...
Leopoldring 2c
Coordinates "Leopoldring 2c, Kantorenhaus"
In the Kantorenhaus, which formerly stood next to the synagogue, the Cantor Hermann Translateur lived from 1923 to 1933 with his wife Ricke, nee Heimann. He was the target of defamation in the “Festungsbote”, a Nazi postil. Probably because of the constant hostility, he moved to Mannheim in April 1933. In 1937 he emigrated to Palestine, where he died in Jerusalem in 1943. His successor Siegfried Simon lived in the cantor house with his wife Johanna nee Levi and their sons Wolfgang and Berthold until 1939.
LIVED HERE / BERTHOLD SIMON / JG. 1929 / ESCAPE 1940 / USA / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / JOHANNA SIMON / GEB. LEVI / JG. 1893 / ESCAPE 1940 / USA / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / SIEGFRIED SIMON / JG. 1895 / ESCAPE 1940 / USA / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / WOLFGANG SIMON / JG. 1922 / ESCAPE 1939 / USA / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / HERMANN / TRANSLATEUR / JG. 1884 / ESCAPE 1937 / PALESTINE / DEAD 24.8.1943 / JERUSALEM
Schlossstrasse 2
LIVED HERE / META STERN / GEB. DAMIDT / JG. 1907 / ESCAPE / 1939 / CYPRUS / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / WALTER STERN / JG. 1900 / ESCAPE 1939 / CYPRUS / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / ELSE WERTHEIMER / BED. STERN / JG. 1889 / ESCAPE 1937 / FRANCE / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / ISAAK WERTHEIMER / JG. 1869 / ESCAPE 1937 / FRANCE / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / JULIUS WERTHEIMER / JG. 1910 / ESCAPE 1933 / FRANCE / SURVIVED LIVED
HERE / MYRTIL WERTHEIMER / JG. 1911 / ESCAPE 1934 / PALESTINE / SURVIVED
literature
- Joachim Rönneper : On my doorstep. “Stumbling blocks” by Gunter Demnig. A companion book . Arachne-Verlag, Gelsenkirchen 2010, ISBN 978-3-932005-40-4 .
Web links
- Stumbling blocks in Rastatt
- Gunter Demnig's website for the "Stolpersteine" project
- Rastatt - From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area
Individual evidence
- ↑ In #Turin (Italy) the 50,000th #Stolperstein in Europe was laid today! He is reminiscent of Eleonora Levi. #Demnig @_Stolpersteine_ on January 11, 2015 on Twitter.
- ↑ Andreas Nefzger: The trace layer. In: FAZ.net . February 7, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ; accessed on October 22, 2017
- ↑ The first 13 stumbling blocks in Rastatt remind of Nazi victims at www.rastatt.de; accessed on October 22, 2017
- ^ Relocation of the Stolperstein in Rastatt in Badisches Tagblatt . October 10, 2017; accessed on October 23, 2017
- ↑ 17 new Stolpersteine - laying campaign on February 6, 2015 at www.stolpersteine-rastatt.de; accessed on October 22, 2017
- ↑ John F. Mueller: When the department store came to Rastatt. In: Badisches Tagblatt . January 29, 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2017
- ↑ FU Vetter: Further stumbling blocks are reminiscent of Jewish fates . In: Rastatter Tagesblatt, March 21, 2016; accessed on October 23, 2017
- ↑ Dreyfuss / Ettlinger family at www.stolpersteine-rastatt.de
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