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Jewish Cemetery Nümbrecht

Name: Jewish Cemetery Nümbrecht
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Location: Nümbrecht, Oberbergischer Kreis, Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

September 19, 2023

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"The Jewish community since the early 19th century:

Jews had been living in Nümbrecht and Marienberghausen since the second half of the 18th century. There had been a community in Nümbrecht since 1791; It was not until 1901, after many decades, that a higher-level synagogue community was formed that included Nümbrecht, Waldbröl and Ruppichteroth. In 1921 the Jews of Ruppichteroth separated from Nümbrecht again. In 1932 Ruppichteroth and Waldbröl were connected.

Community size around 1815: 11 (1823), around 1880: 62 (1885), 1932: 15, 2006: –.

Prayer house / synagogue: A synagogue was inaugurated in 1828. By the end of the 1920s, church services were no longer celebrated there. In the summer of 1938 the building was sold to the civil parish and shortly afterwards it was demolished.

Cemetery: The Jewish cemetery in the old Weiher Wiese was created around 1820, expanded in 1902 and occupied at least until around 1933. 14 gravestones are still preserved in the cemetery (above information according to Reuter 2007).

“Before a separate cemetery was established in Ruppichteroth, the deceased there were buried in Nümbrecht. Six of the 14 gravestones no longer have any inscriptions and the marble slabs have been chipped away. The once densely occupied burial site was destroyed during the Nazi era and gravestones were used for housing purposes. In 1994 the Jewish cemetery was converted into a memorial.” (uni-heidelberg.de)

The memorial, inaugurated on May 28, 1995, consists of seven granite steles between which six plaques are embedded in the ground with the names of the extermination camps in which Nümbrecht Jews were murdered during the Nazi era. The Hebrew inscription on the central stone slab on the floor reads:

"The righteous perishes, and no one takes it to heart, and the righteous men are carried away, while no one notices that the righteous is carried away by wickedness (Book of Isaiah, 57:1)..."

(LVR editorial team KuLaDig, 2011)

kuladig.de/Objectansicht/O-12632-20110627-4

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

September 19, 2023

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"Before the National Socialists came to power, there was a Jewish community in Nümbrecht. Today only five places in the city remember its existence: the memorial for the victims of National Socialism, Meta-Herz-Straße, and the memorial stone near the former location the synagogue, the Jewish cemetery and, since May 2013, Leo-Baer-Straße.

Jewish citizens have lived here for more than 200 years; The oldest surviving date on a tombstone is 1742. Jews often migrated to rural areas to escape waves of discrimination and persecution in the cities. Around 1820, the Jews of Nümbrecht built their own cemetery, which was expanded again in 1902. In 1828 the Nümbrecht synagogue was inaugurated near the village square.

It is typical for Jewish cemeteries that stones are not placed on the graves of the deceased. Men cover their heads with a hat or yarmulke when visiting a cemetery. Unlike Christian cemeteries, the graves are not cleared and refilled after decades: the peace of the dead must not be disturbed - in the hope of the resurrection.

During the “Third Reich” the cemetery was devastated, inscriptions were damaged and gravestones were misused. 14 gravestones, called Mazewot, survived the destruction by the National Socialists. Six of these stones no longer have any inscriptions because the corresponding marble tablets were knocked down at the time. The community's synagogue was destroyed in 1938, and in 1942 the Nümbrecht Jews were deported to extermination camps.

After the end of the war, Leo Baer from Nümbrecht (born in Nümbrecht in 1918, emigrated to America during National Socialism) suggested restoring the cemetery. The facility was restored in the 1950s and handed over to the Jewish community in Cologne in 1952. This is the nearest Jewish community today."

(Biological Station Oberberg, 2013. Created as part of the project “Hecke, Hohlweg, Heimat – cultural landscape communication analogue and digital”. A project as part of the LVR Environmental Network.)

kuladig.de/Objectansicht/O-12632-20110627-4

de-academic.com/dic.nsf/dewiki/2439760

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCdischer_Friedhof_(N%C3%BCmbrecht)

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Sandra Schwabach

December 29, 2024

More important today than ever:
A memorial was inaugurated in the cemetery on May 28, 1995. Seven granite steles were erected and plaques were set into the ground bearing the names of the extermination camps in which the Jewish citizens of Nümbrecht were murdered. On a stone slab it is written in Hebrew: The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart, and the righteous are taken away, and no one notices that the righteous is taken away by wickedness (Isaiah 57:1).

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