Old Jewish Cemetery (Bad Segeberg)

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The Old Jewish Cemetery of Bad Segeberg is located at the spa gardens at the Kurhausstraße immediately west of the Segeberger Clinics. The local community established it in the 18th century and used it until 1936. Since 2002, a new Jewish cemetery has also existed .

history

The presence of Jews can be documented for the first time in 1739. A protective Jew lived with his family in the then Danish city . In the following years, other Jewish families moved to the village. They had their dead buried in the Jewish cemetery in Altona , since Lübeck, which is closer, was not subject to the jurisdiction of the chief rabbi of Altona like Segeberg. In 1792, the community, which was probably founded in the same year, finally opened the cemetery on Kurhausstrasse and founded a Chewra Kadischa . The first burial has been documented for the year 1801. It is unclear whether burials have been carried out before.

From then on, almost all burials of the local Jewish community took place there. During its use, the cemetery had to be expanded eight times. Mostly on a modest scale. The first expansion took place in 1836, further ones in 1853, 1858, 1875, 1884, 1898/99, 1913 and finally in 1934. In 1875 the community built a mortuary in the cemetery, and in 1933 there were 160 grave sites in the cemetery.

After 1933 only one member of the congregation was buried. Luise Dorothea Johanna Goldstein's funeral in 1936 was the last in the old cemetery in Bad Segeberg. Her burial could only be carried out with the help of Jews living in Neumünster. The Chewra Kadisha had already disbanded under National Socialist pressure. During the National Socialist era, the cemetery was desecrated several times. During these years the local Hitler Youth were supposed to tear down the morgue. She badly damaged the building but was unable to demolish it. Remnants of the wall remained in the cemetery until 1945. The British occupation authorities had the remains blown up and removed after the end of the war. Today nothing reminds of the building. In 1945, only 55 of the gravestones remained.

In 2002 the Jewish community, which was re-established in the same year, laid a new burial site within the Ihlwald cemetery.

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Gleiss: Jews in Segeberg . In: Local history yearbook for the Segeberg district . Volume 33/1987 pp. 66–67.
  • Friedrich Gleiss: The Jewish cemetery at Segeberg from 1792 and its dead . In: Local history yearbook for the Segeberg district . Volume 36/1990 pp. 77-78.
  • Friedrich Gleiss: Jewish life in Segeberg from the 18th to the 20th century. Collected articles with over 100 photos and documents . Self-published. Bad Segeberg 2002
  • Excluded - Despised - Destroyed: On the History of the Jews in Schleswig-Holstein . In: State Center for Civic Education Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): Present questions . tape 74 . Kiel 1994, ISBN 3-88312-010-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Jewish cemeteries in Schleswig-Holstein. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Mussdorf, Torsten, 1965-, Neumann, Manfred .: Jewish life in Segeberg from the 18th to the 20th century: collected articles from two decades with over 100 photos and documents . F. Gleiss, Bad Segeberg 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3215-1 , p. 139 .
  3. ↑ Mussdorf, Torsten, 1965-, Neumann, Manfred .: Jewish life in Segeberg from the 18th to the 20th century: collected articles from two decades with over 100 photos and documents . F. Gleiss, Bad Segeberg 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3215-1 , p. 142 .
  4. ↑ Schleswig-Holsteinischer Heimatbund (Ed.): Yearbook for Schleswig-Holstein. Home calendar 2002 . Heinrich Möller Verlag, Rendsburg 2002, ISBN 3-9804653-6-5 , p. 38 .
  5. ↑ a b Must village, Torsten, 1965-, Neumann, Manfred .: Jewish Life in Segeberg from the 18th to 20th century: collected essays from two decades with over 100 photos and documents . F. Gleiss, Bad Segeberg 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3215-1 , p. 68 .
  6. ↑ Mussdorf, Torsten, 1965-, Neumann, Manfred .: Jewish life in Segeberg from the 18th to the 20th century: collected articles from two decades with over 100 photos and documents . F. Gleiss, Bad Segeberg 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3215-1 , p. 144 .
  7. ↑ http://www.bethhahayim.info/badsege.htm. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  8. ^ Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Bad Segeberg (Schleswig-Holstein). In: From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Klaus-Dieter Alicke, accessed on December 15, 2017 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 37.5 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 22.2 ″  E