Jewish cemeteries in Schöningen

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

Jewish cemetery at the Schützenbahn

The cemetery at the Schützenbahn was occupied from 1795 to 1862. In 1862 it was closed, it was now in the immediate vicinity of residential areas, and in 1892 it was removed. No tombstones have survived.

Elmstrasse Jewish cemetery

The cemetery on Elmstrasse on the edge of the municipal cemetery was occupied from 1862 to 1925. In 1920 and during the Nazi era , graves were desecrated , and in 1940 the cemetery was leveled. No gravestones have been preserved on the approx. 200 m² site, which has been maintained by the city since 1952 and has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony since 1959 .

Jewish cemetery on Müller-Mühlenbein-Strasse

The cemetery on Müller-Mühlenbein-Strasse in the new municipal cemetery was occupied in 1933. There are four gravestones and a memorial stone on the 300 m² burial ground, which has been maintained by the city since 1952 and has been owned by the regional association since 1960 .

See also

• List of stumbling blocks in Schöningen

literature

• Tamar Avraham: Schöningen. 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, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 1364-1370.

Web links

• Schöningen (An der Schützenbahn / Elmstrasse / Müller-Mühlenbeinstrasse) In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony
• Schöningen / Elm (Lower Saxony) on jewische-gemeinden.de, accessed on August 11, 2020