Cemetery

Already before 1526 there was a Jewish cemetery in Hemmerden. The plot was donated to the community by the sovereign Elisabeth zu Salm-Dyck. When all Jewish inhabitants had to leave the village in that year, the cemetery was abandoned. The old Jewish cemetery of Hemmerden was located at the Stesser Mühle. The land was returned to the original owners in 1826. Schulte gives 1827 as the year of foundation of the new, still existing Jewish cemetery. The database Epidat as well as Pracht-Jürns mention 1813 as another possible year of foundation.

The old cemetery of the Jüdische community of Wevelinghoven, which was established before 1800, no longer exists today. Due to its central location in the town center, it had already become an obstacle in the eyes of the town administration in the middle of the 19th century. In 1864, the Jüdische Gemeinde Wevelinghoven planned to repair the dilapidated cemetery wall, which was to be supported by a grant from the city administration. When the community considered an expansion of the cemetery, the city withdrew the financial support, however.

The Jewish cemetery in Wevelinghoven is located at the Zehntstraße opposite the driveway L142. The plot was acquired in 1868 by the Jewish community in Wevelinghoven, after the old Jewish cemetery on today's Oberstrasse had become an obstacle in the eyes of the town council due to its dilapidated wall and its central location in the town. The purchase of the land, which was located far outside the village, was therefore subsidized by the city. A destruction of the cemetery in October 1930 is documented, the perpetrators remain unknown.

The last burial took place in 1934 or 1935, 1938 the cemetery was partially verwüstet, 1940 took place the forced sale.

It should still be about. 25 gravestones are preserved, probably sämtlich in the rear third of the long and narrow Grundstückss, through the closed entrance gate are only about 5 of them to be made out.

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On the company property of the merchant Salomon was also created in 1880 a cemetery. which was devastated in 1938. The undestroyed 24 gravestones from there were placed in 1961 in the municipal cemetery in Bismarcker Straße.

Coming from the parking lot on Bismarker Street, you pass a house in the cemetery and turn right in front of the chapel. After a grave field for fallen of the I. World War and the grave of Otto Reuter lies on the left of the way the field with the Jewish gravestones, next to it graves of Cussian prisoners of war 1914/18.

If one enters the cemetery, one finds immediately behind the entrance a large information board with the most important data:

According to the council minutes of the city of Werne from November 1698, further local “vergleitete”*) Jews were buried on the Schüttenwall. The youngest burial took place secretly on 17.07.1942, since at that time a public burial on a Jewish cemetery was forbidden.

Today there are 37 graves and 35 gravestones on the cemetery grounds.

A Jewish cemetery can be traced in Rathenow since 1699. This old cemetery had to make way for a city expansion in 1905 and was abandoned. Outside the city, near the former village of Neufriedrichsdorf, a new cemetery was established, which was destroyed in 1941, the perpetrators were children, members of the Jungvolk. After the war, the cemetery – or what was left of it – fell into oblivion, which was used as a Müllplatz. In the 1970s there was aufgeräumt, the 13 gravestones found thereby were set up in 1993 before the rear cemetery wall.

In 1865, a Jewish cemetery was established at the edge of the general cemetery, until then, the Jewish cemetery in the neighboring Tangermünde had been used.

The Jewish cemetery is located within the cemetery at the Uengelinger gate, in its northern area. From the gate opposite house 2 of the University of Magdeburg-Stendal at the Osterburger Straße one follows the path straight ahead until shortly before the opposite cemetery wall, then turns left and has in front of him the enclosure of the Jewish cemetery, a half-high open brick wall. It includes about 50 gravestones.

A Jewish cemetery appears in the sources for the first time in 1751. It was located on the crossroads. Since the burial ground was already completely occupied in 1778, the Linner magistrate left the adjacent field piece to the Jewish community.

The Jewish cemetery in Krefeld Uerdingen was established before 1844. The former burial ground was located in the triangle between Duisburger Straße and the old Friedhofsstraße. Burials were held here until 1942, the same year the Jewish community was forced to sell the site under National Socialist pressure. IG Farben (Bayer AG) acquired the property. The cemetery was leveled and built over. No graves or gravestones remain. On site, there is no evidence of the former burial ground.