Jewish cemeteries in Holzminden

There are documented three Jewish cemeteries in the Lower Saxon town of Holzminden in the Holzminden district .

Jewish cemetery on Allersheimer Strasse

The Jewish cemetery on Allersheimer Strasse

In the 1224 m² cemetery , a protected cultural monument , there are 90 tombstones for the Jewish deceased from Holzminden and the surrounding area. Burials took place in the cemetery from 1884 to 1937. Since there is no longer any Jewish life with a synagogue and a Jewish community in Holzminden , the cemetery is also maintained by the Lutheran Church.

Some of the tombstones are still in good condition. In 2017 the cemetery got a new wrought iron gate . If you look over the gate to the cemetery from Allersheimer Straße, you will notice the gravestone of the Lebenbaum family. Frau Lebenbaum died in 1937 three months before her 100th birthday and was buried next to her husband. The well-preserved black marble tombstone tells of it.

• Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 9.7 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 42.1 ″  E

Beukampsborn Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery on Beukampsborn

Before 1884, Jewish fellow citizens of Holzminden were buried in the Jewish cemetery on Beukampsborn. The Beukampsborn is a street in Holzminden that branches off from the better known Fürstenberger Straße. The cemetery is at the end of Beukampsborn on the corner with "Im Bruche" street. In this old cemetery there are no more visible graves. The cemetery is designed as a green area protected by a hedge. The hedge has a wrought iron gate through which the cemetery can be entered. The cemetery is recognizable as a Jewish cemetery through the gate with the Star of David .

• Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 11.2 "  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 44.5"  E

Jewish cemetery on the Horst

The cemetery, which no longer exists, was the private cemetery of the Frank family. Today there is a water tank there .

literature

• Holzminden Jewish cemetery. In: Jörg Mitzkat and Andrew Schäfer: Jewish cemeteries in the district of Holzminden. Edited by the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Holzminden. Holzminden [1996], pp. 28–33 (story, with selected photos)
• Klaus Kieckbusch : Holzminden. 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. 873-883
• In addition, in 1992 Professor Berndt Schaller submitted documentation containing a copy of the inscriptions on 28 tombstones.

Web links

Commons : Jüdische Friedhöfe in Holzminden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Holzminden (Allersheimer Straße) In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany
• Rüdiger Schmidt : The Jewish cemetery
• Rüdiger Schmidt: The burial ground of the forced laborers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holzminden (Beukampsborn) 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