Synagogue (Hilhaben)

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The synagogue was built around 1864 in Hilringen , today part of the city of Merzig ( Saarland ). In 1945 it was converted into a residential building that is still in use today.

history

There was a prayer room in Hilringen as early as 1850. A synagogue was built at Mittelstrasse 20 around 1864 . After the referendum in 1935 and the associated annexation of the Saar area to the German Reich , all members of the Jewish community emigrated. The unused synagogue, with all the windows thrown in, was taken over by the community in 1936 and used as a youth home. After the war, the building was converted into a residential building that still exists today. In 1984 a memorial plaque was attached to the building.

The inscription reads:

In memory of the venerable church of the Israelite congregation in Hilringen. May 2, 1984 City of Merzig Saar synagogue community.

Jewish community of Hilringen

The first inhabitants of the Jewish faith settled in Hilhaben in 1693. Their dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Freudenburg . From the 1740s onwards, the dead were buried in the Merzig Jewish cemetery, which was first mentioned in a document in 1748 . After the number of members of the Jewish community peaked in 1823, it slowly declined. In 1867 the congregation lost its status ( minjan ) as an autonomous congregation due to the small number of members and was affiliated with the Merzig religious community. After the referendum in 1935, all members of the Jewish community emigrated. In 1936 there were no more Jews living in Hilhaben.

Development of the Jewish population

year Jews Jewish families
around 1768 3
around 1780 3
1802 7th
1823 52
1895 36
around 1925 approx. 30
1936 no

Sources: Hans Leisten: Contribution to the history of the Hilbringer Jews and Cilli Kasper-Holtkatte: Jews on the move. On the social history of a minority in the Saar-Moselle area around 1800

The following members of the Jewish community in Hilringen were murdered during the National Socialist era :

Surname First name Time of death Age Place of death comment swell
Eagle Mathilde unknown unknown Auschwitz concentration camp October 22, 1940 deportation to the internment camp Gurs . On November 3, 1942, deported from the Rivesaltes internment camp via the Drancy assembly camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11456874) / memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Gottlieb Selma October 19, 1942 65 years Auschwitz concentration camp 1942 Deportation from the Westerbork transit camp Yad Vashem (database, data set No. 4243381 and 11509116) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Boat Ida unknown unknown Auschwitz concentration camp Deported on November 6, 1942 from the Drancy assembly camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11534784) / memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Solomon Friedrich Fritz Frederic unknown unknown Auschwitz concentration camp Deportation on August 31, 1942 from the Drancy assembly camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp (Transport 26, Train 901-21) Yad Vashem (database, dataset No. 3215521) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
gelding Elise unknown unknown Riga ghetto Deported from Hanover on December 15, 1941 to the Riga ghetto Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11515923) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany

literature

  • Frank Hirsch: Jews in Merzig between persistence and progress. A small town community in the 19th century (= history & culture. Saarbrücker row 4). Kliomedia, Trier 2014, ISBN 978-3-89890-188-8 .
  • Hans Peter Klauck: Jewish life in the Merzig-Wadern district 1650–1940. In: Communications from the Association for Local Studies in the District of Saarlouis eV (= communications from the Association for Local Studies in the District of Saarlouis eV Volume 25). Association for local studies in the district of Saarlouis eV, 2019, ISBN 978-3933926784 .
  • Wilhelm Laubenthal : The synagogue communities of the Merzig district. Merzig - Brotdorf - Hilringen 1648–1942 . SDV Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Saarbrücken 1984.
  • Hans Leisten: Contribution to the history of the Hilbringer Jews . In: Hilbringer Heimatbuch . Self-published by the district town of Merzig, Merzig 1980, pp. 141–148.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Leisten: Contribution to the history of the Hilbringer Jews . In: Hilbringer Heimatbuch . Merzig, 1980, pp. 141-148, here p. 143.
  2. ^ A b Hilringen (City of Merzig, Merzig-Wadern district) Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue . alemannia-judaica.de/. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Merzig (Saarland) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Merzig-Hilringen . literaturland-saar.de. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Hans Leisten: Contribution to the history of the Hilbringer Jews. In: Hilbringer Heimatbuch . Self-published by the district town of Merzig, Merzig 1980, pp. 141–149.
  6. ↑ Cilli Kasper-Holtkatte: Jews on the move. On the social history of a minority in the Saar-Mosel area around 1800. In: Helmut Castritius (Ed.), Alfred Haverkamp (Ed.), Franz Irsigler (Ed.), Stefi Jersch-Wenzel (Ed.): Research on the history of the Jews (= Research on the history of the Jews. Volume 3). Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1996, ISBN 978-3775256124 , p. 44. ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de%2Fopus45-ubtr%2Ffrontdoor%2Fdeliver%2Findex%2FdocId%2F778%2Ffile%2FFGJA3_GB3Dpdf .Holt IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D )
  7. ↑ List of names of the online version of the memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews at: www.bundesarchiv.de, accessed on December 8, 2019
  8. ↑ Yad Vashem - Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims At: yvng.yadvashem.org, accessed December 8, 2019