Jewish Cemetery (Gorzów Wielkopolski)
Coordinates: 52 ° 43 ′ 38.2 " N , 15 ° 12 ′ 13.6" E
The Jewish cemetery in Gorzów Wielkopolski (German Landsberg an der Warthe ), a town in the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland , was laid out at the beginning of the 18th century.
Little is known about the city's first Jewish cemetery , mentioned in a description from 1510. After the Jews were re-admitted to the city in the middle of the 17th century, they laid out today's cemetery, which was first mentioned in 1723. The oldest surviving tombstone dates from 1759.
In the middle of the 19th century, a brick mourning hall was built in the cemetery. A second mourning hall followed in 1927 for unknown reasons. Both buildings have been preserved and changed.
The 0.72 hectare cemetery survived the National Socialist era largely unscathed, but was systematically destroyed after 1945; the greatest damage dates from the 1980s. The tombstones were broken and both mourning halls were converted into workshops. Ten upright stones, 36 horizontal ones, the fragments of 36 others and the frames of 92 tombstones are still preserved.
The cemetery has been a protected cultural monument since 2006 .
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. 3 volumes. Gütersloher Verlagshaus , Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 . ( Online edition )
Web links
- Virtual Shtetl (accessed February 27, 2018)