Jewish cemeteries in Osnabrück
The Jewish cemeteries in Osnabrück are three Jewish cemeteries in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony : Alter Friedhof, Neuer Friedhof and Heger Friedhof.
description
Old cemetery: The cemetery on Bergstrasse, which no longer exists, dates from the Middle Ages . The property was purchased in 1386 and the Jews were expelled from the city in 1426. From the beginning of the 19th century until 1876 the cemetery was occupied again. In 1894 corpses were exhumed and transferred to the Magdalenenstrasse cemetery. There are no more tombstones . Roads lead across the site. There is no evidence of a Jewish cemetery on site.
New cemetery: The cemetery on Magdalenenstrasse was occupied from 1876 to 1937. It is still used today. There are 236 tombstones.
Heger Friedhof: The inauguration of the cemetery on Lotter Kirchweg took place on May 20, 2003. There is no information about the number of tombstones.
literature
- Tamar Avraham / Daniel Fraenkel: Osnabrück. 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. 1196–1220 (Jüdischer Friedhof Osnabrück: p. 1198, p. 1202, p. 1216, p. 1217, p. 1218)
See also
Web links
- Section of the Heger cemetery. Third cemetery for the Jewish community of Osnabrück on August 23, 2016 on noz.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Osnabrück (Alter Friedhof) In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
- ↑ Osnabrück (Neuer Friedhof) In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
- ↑ Osnabrück (Heger Friedhof) In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
