# Wickrathberg

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**Wickrathberg** is a borough of the [German](/source/Germany) city [Mönchengladbach](/source/M%C3%B6nchengladbach), located in the west of [North Rhine-Westphalia](/source/North_Rhine-Westphalia). The river [Niers](/source/Niers) flows through the village.

## History

The village belonged to the manor of Wickrath in the Middle Ages and early modern times.

An important Jewish community existed in Wickrathberg since before 1704. There was a synagogue, a school and a Jewish cemetery in neighboring Wanlo. The Wickrathberg synagogue was destroyed during the [Kristallnacht](/source/Kristallnacht) in November 1938. Only a memorial plaque remains in the pavement of Berger Dorfstraße. In the following years, the Jewish citizens were arrested and deported to concentration camps. By 1942, the 250-year-old Wickrathberg Jewish community had ceased to exist.[1]

In 1945, after the end of the Second World War, the American army built a large temporary prisoner of war camp in the triangle between Güdderath, [Hochneukirch](/source/Hochneukirch) and Wickrathberg, one of the so-called "[Rheinwiesenlager](/source/Rheinwiesenlager)". It held between 120,000 and 150,000 German prisoners of war from April to September 1945 in the open air.[2]

## People who grew up in Wickrathberg

- [Hilde Sherman](/source/Hilde_Sherman) (1923–2011), Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust.
- [Wolfgang Lüderitz](/source/Wolfgang_L%C3%BCderitz_(composer)) (1926–2012), composer.

## References

1. [Heimatverein Wickrathberg, Juedische Gemeinde](https://www.heimatverein-wickrathberg.de/geschichte-1/dorfgeschichte/#Juedische-Gemeinde)

1. [Heimatverein Wickrathberg, Zweiter Weltkrieg](https://www.heimatverein-wickrathberg.de/geschichte-1/dorfgeschichte/#Zweiter-Weltkrieg)

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