The Jewish graveyard as a
historical monument
The Jewish graveyard of
Porz-Zündorf is in bad condition, it looks more or
less neglected, because there's garbage and
Graffitis on the tombs. Because of this ine can
conclude that the graveyard is still visited by
people with xenophobic intentions. Further it shows
symptoms of decline, the fallen trees as well as the
moss on the gravestones. We also noticed that one
gravestone was in a very much weather-beaten state,
i.e. it had crumbling places, as well as a fading of
the writing, although the grave was one of the
latest.j
In the
1920’s and 30’s families of Jews didn’t use
stones of high quality. What might be the
reason for their bad conditions. |
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Heavily
damaged gravestone. |
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After the
former entrance which is parallel to the
tracks of tramelines 7 and 8, was found |
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a memorial
by the city of Porz was found easily. Its
effect isn’t great at all, because this
memorial stone is far off the main path. |
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If one walks
towards the small wooded area, |
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ithe sign
from the city of Cologne is visible. |
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The sign
contains informative explanation, but –
because of its location- it isn’t very much
noticed by pedestrians. |
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Other that
that one wouldn’t assume the Jewish
graveyard to be in this wooden area because
it is far off the road. |
After investigating
the graveyard in detail we came to the conclusion
that the Jewish graveyard is unknwon by most
citizens because of its location...
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