Old Jewish Cemetery (Münden)
The old Jewish cemetery in Münden is a former Jewish cemetery in Hann. Münden ( district of Göttingen , Lower Saxony ).
description
The 1,157 m² cemetery on Vogelsangweg no longer has any gravestones , but a memorial stone for the Jewish deceased from Münden and the surrounding area from around 1673 to 1932. The cemetery is - like the new cemetery - owned by the regional association of the Jewish communities of Lower Saxony .
history
In the middle of the 17th century there was a small Jewish community in Münden . A cemetery was laid out before 1673. Because of repeated desecrations, permission was given in 1678 to enclose it with a fence. By the end of the 19th century, 291 burials had been carried out - this meant that the cemetery was largely occupied and a replacement plot of land had to be found. It was not until 1928 that the Jewish community was able to acquire suitable land about 2 km from the city center for a new cemetery.
In 1938 the old cemetery was desecrated and the 1000 m² area was transferred to the company on the neighboring property. “Some of the tombstones were given to a local stonemason for reuse, and some remained on the property. There they ended up underground when the site was leveled during the Nazi era . "
The entire former cemetery area was converted into a memorial after the Second World War .
See also
literature
- Johann Dietrich von Pezold: Münden. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . , Volume 1 and 2 (1668 pp.), Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 1072-1082.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Dietrich von Pezold: Münden. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . , Volume 1 and 2 (1668 pp.), Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , p. 1081.
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 40.8 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 6.2 ″ E