Old Jewish cemetery Viersen

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Since 1853 the Jewish burial ground of Viersen was located on the Florastraße. Buried here was until the year 1906. When the Jewish community 1907 by the city a part of the municipal cemetery had been handed over, went in compensation the part of the older Jewish cemetery, on which until then no burials had taken place, into the municipal possession.

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Today there is a green area here. No gravestones have been preserved. A memorial stone reminds of the former Jewish cemetery. It can be assumed that the former burial ground was larger than today's lawn.

Prayer room Süchteln

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In 1812, the Jewish community in Süchteln built its prayer room on the second floor at Hindenburgstraße 3. The private house was located directly next to the Protestant church.

During the November pogroms, the building was not set on fire because there was a barbershop on the first floor owned by non-Jewish owners. Nevertheless, the prayer room was completely destroyed.

Prayer room Dülken

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Through the donation of a wealthy Dülken Jew, the Jewish community was able to build a prayer room in 1781 in premises in the backyard of the house on the corner of Lange Straße and Domhof. This prayer room replaced an older prayer room, which is documented since the 1680s, but can no longer be located today.

 

The prayer room was used by the Jewish community until the ceremonial dedication of the newly built synagogue in 1898.

Dülken synagogue

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In the summer of 1898, the synagogue was solemnly consecrated in the former Bahnhofstraße, today's Martin-Luther-Straße.

The brick building, which had been constructed from a mixture of the neo-Islamic and Romanesque styles, was located directly opposite a Protestant church and was a popular motif on picture postcards of the city.

During the November pogroms, the synagogue was set on fire. The inventory was destroyed. The Protestant pastor Wilhelm Veit saved one of the Torah scrolls that night. This is now in the Jewish community center in Krefeld.

Prayer Hall Viersen Main Street

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It is the former residence of Jonas Leffmann. He had been a resident of Viersen since 1807 and, as a trader in ellewaren, was one of the few Jews to hold a trade patent in Viersen since 1818. In 1822, he is even listed as a cotton manufacturer in the address directory of the city of Viersen, which shows that he had at least succeeded in advancing to the middle class of Viersen tradesmen. Nevertheless, Jonas Leffmann had to declare bankruptcy in 1824 and was not able to register a trade patent again until 1829.

 

Prayer Hall Viersen Rectorate Street

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The house Rektoratstraße 10 was acquired by the Jewish community in 1862. The building served different purposes. In the basement was the Jewish school. The private school was nationalized in 1905. It existed until 1932, when the last Jewish teacher - Israel Nussbaum - retired.

On the second floor of the building, the Jewish community built a prayer hall, which existed until the expropriation of the property around 1939/1940. The building passed into municipal ownership.

Law firm - Dr. jur. Gustav Kahn III

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In the Nürnberger address book  1923 the following entry is found: Kahn III, Gust,.Dr.jur., lawyer, Frauentorgraben 5, office: Pfannenschmiedsgasse 6 II. In the  „Mitteilungen der Reichs-Rechtsanwaltskammer“ No. 12 of December 1, 1938, the lists of banned Jewish lawyers in Bavaria were published. By order of the president of the Nuremberg Bar Association, 43 Jewish lawyers had to resign because their license to practice had been revoked. Among the names listed for the Nürnberg-Fürth Higher Regional Court and Regional Court was also the name of Dr. Gustav Kahn III in Nürnberg.

Machine shop - A. Thanhauser

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In the Augsburg address book 1914 the following entry can be found: Thanhauser Alfred Kaufmann, Mittlere Maximilianstra;e A 6/II  -  Born on September 15, 1883 in Kriegshaber, Alfred Thanhauser was deported from Augsburg über München-Milbertshofen to Piaski on April 2, 1942. The exact date of Alfred Thanhauser's death is not known.