Jewish cemetery (Meppen)

View from the entrance over the cemetery

The Meppen Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Meppen in the Emsland district of Lower Saxony . It is a protected cultural monument .

description

There are 22 tombstones in the 3208 m² cemetery "An der Hütte" . The oldest is from 1850/51.

history

Looking towards the entrance

From 1953 the cemetery was owned by the Jewish Trust Corporation (JTC) and since 1960 it has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony . Repairs were carried out in 1952 and after devastation in 1987/88. From 1957 a nursery was responsible for the care of the cemetery and since 1997 a Catholic working group has been responsible.

literature

• Tamar Avraham: Meppen. 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. 1042-1050.
• Jewish cemeteries in Emsland. Edited by the district of Emsland. Meppen 1991, pp. 30-35.

Web links

• Meppen. 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 Meppen
• Young people design a new entrance to the Jewish cemetery. A forged iron gate on kirchenbote.de on June 4, 2013.

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 , pp. 1049f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 6.6 ″  E