Jewish cemetery on the Grindel

Memorial stone for the former Jewish cemetery on Grindel

Gabriel Riesser's tomb, today in the Jewish cemetery in Ohlsdorf

The Grindelwald cemetery or Jewish cemetery at Grindelwald is a former burial ground in eponymous district Grindel of the Hamburg district of Rotherbaum , Eimsbüttel district . The cemetery was destroyed during National Socialism and built over immediately afterwards.

description

The cemetery was in the Grindelviertel, on the corner of the streets An der Verbindungsbahn / Rentzelstrasse . Originally there were two buildings in the cemetery, one for the administration and the inspector and one for the washing of the dead. Among those buried there were the rabbi of the Hamburg community Isaak Bernays , the pioneer for emancipation Gabriel Riesser and the mother of the writer Heinrich Heine , Betty Heine .

history

When the burial grounds in Altona were not accessible to Hamburg residents in 1712 due to the Great Northern War , the cemetery was laid out at the gates of the city long before the Grindelviertel became the center of Jewish life. After that it was initially only used as a cemetery for the poor and servants. It was not until 1835 that it became the main cemetery of the High German Israelite Community and the Portuguese Community in Hamburg. The last burial took place in 1909 because the cemetery was full. Afterwards, both communities buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Ohlsdorf . In 1929, the graves had to be lowered on a seven-meter-wide strip and the cemetery wall had to be relocated because of the widening of the road at the connecting railway . In the early 1930s, the cemetery was the target of anti-Semitic devastation. In 1937 the cemetery was closed due to government pressure. Contrary to Jewish custom, the bones of the buried were exhumed and reburied in the cemetery in Ohlsdorf. 450 tombstones of the original 8000 were also moved there. After the evacuation, the area was built over with multi-family houses. A bronze plaque on a stone stele has been a reminder of the destroyed cemetery since 1986.

See also

• List of Jewish cemeteries in Hamburg
• History of the Jews in Hamburg
• Center of Jewish life in Hamburg
• Database with details of burials

literature

• Gil Hüttenmeister, Eberhard Klassung, Michael Studemund-Halévy, The Grindel replacement cemetery at the Jewish cemetery Ohlsdorf-Ilandkoppel, Hamburg 2014
• Michael Studemund-Halévy, Im Jüdischen Hamburg, Hamburg 2010

Web links

• Database of the buried

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof am Grindel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Jewish cemeteries in Hamburg. From Albrecht Schreiber
• Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 53 "  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 42"  E