Please Pray - Naumburg Court 21st January Hearing

The Higher Regional Court Naumburg will negotiate on the 21st January on the removal of the nastiness
 
The Higher Regional Court Naumburg will negotiate on the 21st of January on the removal of the malignancy "Judensau" on the facade of the town church in Wittenberg.

In the appeal process it is about the corresponding application of the plaintiff, as a court spokesman announced on Tuesday in Naumburg.

PLASTIC The plaintiff wants the Evangelische Stadtkirchengemeinde to remove the plastic and, as a precaution, have the sandstone relief confirm that the insult is correct. (OLG Naumburg 9 U 54/19)

The plaintiff is a member of a Jewish community. The defendant congregation is the owner of the listed city church in the Lutherstadt.

The district court Dessau-Roßlau had dismissed the action on 24 May 2019. The plaintiff can not demand the removal, because the dating from the 13th century nasturtium did not meet the offense of insult, the court ruled.

BUILDING It is part of a historic building and is not uncommented on the wall of the town church. About the memorial at the foot of the church, the relief is embedded in a commemorative culture.

The sandstone relief about four meters high on the facade is recognizable as a nasty plastic against Jews. With renovations to the church in 1983, the community decided to leave the sandstone relief in place.

In November 1988, the parish church consecrated below the relief a memorial, which refers to the malignancy and the effect of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism in an artistic way. epd