Old Jewish cemetery Eberswalde
The old Jewish cemetery in Eberswalde was laid out in 1751. The community had previously used the Biesenthal Jewish cemetery . The oldest surviving tombstone dates from 1784. In 1851 the cemetery was expanded and in 1862 it was enclosed with a brick wall. Today it has an area of around 975 m².
It is known that the cemetery was desecrated in 1897, whereupon the workers Dittmann, Wittke and Botz were sentenced to two years, eight months and one year and six months in prison.
The cemetery was neither destroyed nor desecrated during the Nazi era . This was mainly due to the fact that the city chronicler Rudolf Schmidt did not mention the Jewish cemeteries in Eberswalde in his main work "History of the City of Eberswalde" in 1940 , although he knew them. Only a few years earlier, Rudolf Schmidt had presented these cemeteries in one of his “Märkische Wanderhefte”. The cemetery is also located on the non-public area of the then “Landesirrenanstalt” (later Landesklinik Eberswalde, now Gropius Hospital ) and is relatively hidden.
Little was known about the cemetery during the GDR era. It was restored in 1988 after the city had initially planned to level it. After the first clean-up work, 20 tombstones were smashed and severely desecrated. Today the cemetery is in a well-tended condition, but closed. The key can be obtained from the city administration.
The new Jewish cemetery was laid out in 1894 and opened in 1924.
literature
- Michael Brocke, Eckehart Ruthenberg, Kai Uwe Schulenburg: Evidence of Jewish culture . Berlin 1992, pp. 87-89 u. Pp. 315-318.
- Ludwig Arendt: On the history of the Eberswalder synagogue community. Booklet accompanying the special exhibition “Fates of Jewish Citizens from Eberswalde”. 1993.
Web links
- Short story on alemannia-judaica.de
- Explanations and abbreviations on Jewish gravestones in Brandenburg
footnote
- ^ Rudolf Schmidt: History of the city of Eberswalde . Volume 2 from 1740 to 1940 (Eberswalde 1940, reprint 1994), comments by Ludwig Arendt in reprint
Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 34.3 " N , 13 ° 49 ′ 25.7" E