Jewish cemeteries in Bad Bentheim

There are documented three Jewish cemeteries in the Lower Saxony city ​​of Bad Bentheim .

Old Jewish cemetery Bad Bentheim

The Jewish cemetery in Bentheim ("Judenkerckhof te Bentheim"), watercolor by Jacob Maris (1837–1899)

There are 33 tombstones on the Jewish cemetery in the east of the city center, on the Bentheim Mountains, which was laid out in the 17th century . The oldest dated gravestone is from 1806, the youngest from 1866. The cemetery "in the Bergkämpen" is 598 m².

New Jewish cemetery Bad Bentheim

The Jewish cemetery on Hilgenstiege was occupied from 1874 to 1931. There are 45 tombstones on it. The 639 m² cemetery was devastated in 1971.

Jewish cemetery Gildehaus

On the Jewish cemetery on the west slope, which was occupied from 1746, there are two tombstones and other fragments. The cemetery was completely devastated during the Nazi era . The tombstones were dragged away, cut to pieces and served as road plates in the garden of an NSDAP functionary. Only one tombstone was completely preserved. After 1945, fragments of other tombstones were placed on graves or stacked apart. Survivors of the Jewish community in Bentheim erected a memorial stone in Gildehaus in 1945 . In 1953 the then 1287 m² cemetery in the Gildehauser "Esch" was returned to the JTC . In 1960, 85 m² of this area was transferred to the regional association and 1202 m² were sold to the political community.

literature

• Daniel Fraenkel: Bentheim (today Bad Bentheim). In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 187-195 (therein p. 194: the Jewish cemeteries).

Web links

Commons : Alter Jüdischer Friedhof (Bentheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The old Jewish cemetery of Bad Bentheim on juedische-friedhoefe.info
• The new Jewish cemetery in Bad Bentheim on juedische-friedhoefe.info
• Bentheim In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony - Bentheim (old cemetery) . Central archive of Heidelberg University
2. ^ Daniel Fraenkel: Bentheim (today Bad Bentheim). In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 187–195 (therein p. 194: the cemetery “in the Bergkämpen”).
3. ^ Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony - Bentheim (new cemetery) . Central archive of Heidelberg University
4. ^ Daniel Fraenkel: Bentheim (today Bad Bentheim). In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 187–195 (therein p. 194: the cemetery on the “Hilgenstiege”).
5. ^ Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony - Gildehaus . Central archive of Heidelberg University
6. ^ Daniel Fraenkel: Bentheim (today Bad Bentheim). In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 187–195 (therein p. 194: the cemetery in the Gildehauser "Esch").