Dead Street

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As a dead road or more frequently Totenweg or Leichenweg were referred paths or even named as such on the dead to cemeteries were spent. Other local names were Totensteig, Totenzeil, Bahrweg, Leichweg, Totengasse, Gräberstraße and similar names or traditional dialect modifications such as B. Dodenweg in northern German regions or in Middle Franconia Todenweg ( Aberzhausen ), Todtenweg ( forehead ) and Todtenleithe ( Ottmarsfeld ).

Some of these cemeteries consisted of mass graves and were created during the plague because the plague cost so many lives.

The paths used for the Jewish corpse processions were often referred to as “Judenwege” or “Judenpfade”, alleys and paths.

Other and similar uses of the term

The terms Totenweg and Totenstrasse also exist with a different meaning in the Hittite belief in the dead and the Hittite ideas of the afterlife . More information on this is described in the section The Paths of the Dead in the article Hittite belief in the dead and conceptions of the afterlife .

The term grave road in connection with the Roman burial rituals in turn describes long, single-line grave fields along the streets, some of which reached great lengths. Images of the dead on the tombs should be clearly visible to passers-by, inscriptions 'spoke' to them.

See also

literature

  • Herbert Jandaurek: The dead streets. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Vol. 15, H. 2/3, April – September 1961, pp. 143–149, online (PDF; 482 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.

Web links

Commons : Dead Street  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Kuhn : Jüdischer Friedhof Georgensgmünd (= Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern. N. F., Vol. 6). Among employees by Gabriele Schickel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-422-06559-8 , p. 67 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Explanatory example : Laurentiusstraße - Totenstraße. In: heimatvereinwarendorf.de. Heimatverein Warendorf, accessed on December 11, 2017.
  3. ↑ Horst Wagner, Reiner Naumann, Mark Engelbach: The Oberaspher Jews. Schröder, Wetter 2006, ISBN 3-9805907-8-X , p. 62 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Herbert Jandaurek: The dead streets. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . 15th vol., H. 2/3, April – September 1961, pp. 143–149, here: p. 143 and ö. ( online (PDF; 482 kB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  5. ↑ Sonja Jenning: From church yards and dead alleys. In: Märkische Oderzeitung . November 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ Werner T. Bauer : Wiener Friedhofsführer. Exact description of all burial sites together with a history of the Viennese burial system. Falter, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-85439-049-1 , p. 32 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  7. ^ Ina Kahns: On the folklore of the state of Mecklenburg using the example of the old Boizenburg office at the beginning of the 20th century (= publications by the Research Center for East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund. Series B. No. 32). Revised by Otto Witte . Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 1983, ISBN 3-923293-02-X , p. 21 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  8. ↑ a b Barbara Rösch: Der Judenweg. Jewish history and cultural history from the perspective of field name research. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-56998-6 , p. 153, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201406112822 (Zugl .: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2006; limited preview in Google Book Search).
  9. ^ Local home maintenance and AK history of Hergatz: plague cemeteries, plague chapels and broom chapels in the vicinity of Hergatz. In: hergatz.net. Archived from the original on June 5, 2012 ; Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Peter Kuhn : Jüdischer Friedhof Georgensgmünd (= Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern. N. F., Vol. 6). Among employees by Gabriele Schickel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-422-06559-8 , pp. 51, 54, 57, 62, 70 and ö. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ↑ Norbert Fischer u. a .: Room for the dead. The history of the cemeteries from the burial roads of Roman times to anonymous burials. Edited by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal e. V. and the Central Institute and Museum for Sepulchral Culture Kassel. Thalacker-Medien, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-87815-174-8 , p. 14 ( limited preview in the Google book search).