Jewish cemetery (Bückeburg)

Jewish cemetery in Bückeburg

The Jewish cemetery Bückeburg is a Jewish cemetery in the Lower Saxony city ​​of Bückeburg in the Schaumburg district . There are 168 gravestones in the 3,440 m² cemetery on Birkenallee.

history

The cemetery was first mentioned in 1793, but it is definitely older. In 1824 it was expanded to include an adjacent garden plot. Enclosing with a hedge was prohibited in 1825.

After the Second World War , the cemetery was restored in 1950. Since 1960 it has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony .

In 1955, 1975 and 1992 the cemetery was desecrated.

literature

• Rotraud Ries: Bückeburg. 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. 363-372

See also

• Bückeburg # Time of National Socialism and World War II

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Buckeburg. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony ; Status: January 2002
• Bückeburg Jewish Cemetery (3 photos)

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '16.4 "  N , 9 ° 3' 19.2"  E