Jewish cemetery (Lingen)

View over the cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Lingen ( Emsland district ) is a protected cultural monument .

description

There are 71 gravestones in the 1341 m² cemetery on “Weidestrasse” . The oldest is from 1843, the youngest from 1976.

history

Information board attached to the cemetery wall

In 1952 the cemetery was owned by the Jewish Trust Corporation (JTC) and since 1959 it has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony . From 1980 a grammar school took care of the cemetery maintenance, since 1986 the city of Lingen and an ecumenical working group have been responsible. Repairs were carried out in 1954, 1959 and 1995. In 1958, 1972/73, 1975 and 2002 gravestones were overturned or damaged.

literature

• Anne Scherger: The Jewish cemetery. A documentation. Forum Juden - Christen Altkreis Lingen, Lingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-9805696-5-1 .
• Ludwig Remling: Lingen. 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. 993-1001.
• Jewish cemeteries in Emsland. Edited by the district of Emsland. Meppen 1991.

See also

• Jewish community of Lingen

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 , p. 1000.
2. ↑ Book "The Jewish Cemetery in Lingen" documents family stories, review on noz.de, accessed on February 3, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '36 "  N , 7 ° 18' 30.7"  E