Jewish cemetery (Burgdorf)

Graves in the Jewish cemetery in Burgdorf

The normally locked gate to the cemetery (Uetzer Straße)

The Burgdorf Jewish Cemetery in the Lower Saxon town of Burgdorf in the Hanover region is a protected cultural monument .

There are 102 tombstones in the 1919 m² cemetery at Uetzer Strasse 25 .

history

The cemetery was occupied from 1694 to 1936, the oldest surviving tombstone dates from 1750. In 1735 the cemetery was fenced and in 1767 it was enlarged. In 1939 the cemetery was closed. 47 gravestones were removed during the Nazi era . In 1947 and in the 1960s the cemetery was desecrated. In 1953 it became the property of the Jewish Trust Corporation (JTC), and in 1959 it was handed over to the State Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony . In 1979 the Burgdorf high school took over the sponsorship of the cemetery.

literature

• Antje C. Naujoks and Herbert Obenaus : Burgdorf. 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. 384-394 (Jüdischer Friedhof Burgdorf: p. 386, p. 390, p. 392).
• Documentation by the Burgdorf high school (1979–1981) and by Friedel Homeyer on behalf of the Hanover district (1982)

Web links

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

• Burgdorf. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• Places of remembrance - Burgdorf Jewish Cemetery

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 42.3 "  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 11.3"  E