Old Jewish Cemetery (Braunschweig)

View of the tombstones

View of the Askenasy family mausoleum

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Braunschweig is a historic cemetery on Hamburger Strasse north of Schützenplatz. The cemetery was laid out around 1800 and largely replaced at the beginning of the 20th century by the Jewish cemetery on Helmstedter Strasse as a burial site. The listed complex is surrounded on two sides (north and east) by a 1.5 meter high wall made of lime stone. The other two sides are bordered by a fence. There are around 900 grave sites in the cemetery. He belongs to the Braunschweig Jewish Community , which has its parish hall and synagogue on Steinstrasse.

The area has a loose, older tree population. From the entrance gate on Hamburger Strasse, a middle path runs across the cemetery to a gate at the back. The most striking tomb is the listed burial place of the Askenasy family (Aschkenasy) in the form of a mausoleum in the center of the complex.

history

For a long time, the Braunschweig Jews had to bury their dead in the Jewish cemetery near Wolfenbüttel. In 1797, the Braunschweig Jewish community acquired the property on Hamburger Strasse to create a burial site. In 1851 an extension area was purchased, which was used as a burial place from 1869. The total area was then 4933 m². In 1917 the cemetery was largely closed; the last funeral took place in 1939.

Well-known burials and tombs

• Adolf Aronheim (1818–1880), lawyer and politician
• Samuel Levi Egers (1769–1842), rabbi
• Ludwig Helfft (1793–1867), businessman and politician
• Levi Herzfeld (1810–1884), state rabbi of the Duchy of Braunschweig
• Salomon Mendelssohn (1813-1892), educator

literature

• Reinhard Bein : You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983). In: Messages from the Braunschweig City Archives , No. 1, Döring Druck, Braunschweig 2009, ISBN 978-3-925268-30-4 .
• Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.2 .: City of Braunschweig. Part 2, Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1996, ISBN 3-8271-8256-5 .

Web links

Commons : Old Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Braunschweig City Archives: When you build a house, you want to stay
2. ^ Station 8 on the tour "Jewish History in Braunschweig" , accessed on May 29, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 11.6 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 5.9"  E