Jewish cemetery (Liebenau, Lower Saxony)

Cemetery entrance

The Jewish cemetery Liebenau is a Jewish cemetery in Liebenau ( Nienburg / Weser district , Lower Saxony ). It is a protected cultural monument . In the 2150 m² cemetery there are still 70 gravestones from the period after 1850 - some of them only with Hebrew inscriptions.

history

Graves

The cemetery had existed on Stolzenauer Strasse since at least 1778. In 1831 it was expanded to 2150 m². The deceased Jews from Steyerberg and - until 1843 - the deceased of two Jewish families from Siedenburg were also buried for a fee . In January 1939 the cemetery was closed due to an order of the district president .

literature

• Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich: Liebenau. 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. 985-989.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 28.2 "  N , 9 ° 5 ′ 36.5"  E