Krudenburg, Jewish life

In the middle of the 19th century in Krudenburg, a place on the 
right bank of the Lippe, about 18 km upstream from the Lippemündung near 
Wesel, Jewish families can be traced. On a historical map can be found
 the house of a family Aron Wolf in the village center. As residents are 
the members of this family certainly in 1865 verifiable, 
möglicherweise, however, the family has already lived länger in Krudenburg.
 Anyway, the establishment of a cemetery indicates several families.
The first reliable evidence üabout the number of Jewish inhabitants 
of the village is found in the cadastres of the Bürgermeisterei Schermbeck 
of 1871: There Krudenburg is described as a „Flecken“ with 128 ha. 
„At Köpfen are there 6 Jews, 22 Protestants and 5 Catholics 
countedählt“. But there must have lived already in the early 18th century Jewish 
families in Krudenburg, because for the year 1728 is mentioned in 
Krudenburg an Isaak Gumprecht, 1735 a Moses Matthias. 
(Kirchenbücher Ev Kg Drevenack)
Krudenburg had at that time a small port and lived and lived from 
the towboat navigation on the Lippe. This was flat load cranes from the 
shore with horses or by people up or 
down the Lippe. Around the middle of the 19th century, a lively 
building activity, a post office, many crafts, a school testify to 
relative prosperity of the population. With industrialization, 
greaterö&aerial;cranes were needed. Bridges hindered navigation, as did a falling 
water level. The importance of Krudenburg declined accordingly
 zurückück.In individual sources it is reported that in the upper floor 
of the house Aron Wolf jüdischer service was held.