Jewish cemetery (Obernkirchen)

Jewish cemetery Obernkirchen

The Jewish cemetery Obernkirchen is a Jewish cemetery in the Lower Saxon town of Obernkirchen in the Schaumburg district . There are 102 tombstones in the 1,646 m² cemetery “Auf der alten Bückeburg ”.

history

In 1823 an application was made to enlarge the existing “court of death”; However, it was only approved after 1859.

In 1952 the city of Obernkirchen received almost half (1,547 m²) of the Jewish cemetery in return for a compensation payment of DM 450.

Entrance gate

The cemetery has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony since 1960 .

In 1969 32 tombstones were overturned, in 2006 and 2007 the cemetery was desecrated again.

literature

• Karl Heinz Schneider: Obernkirchen. 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. 1156-1162

Web links

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

• Obernkirchen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony ; Status: January 2002
• Jewish history in Obernkirchen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No Nazi rally on New Year's Eve / Jewish cemetery desecrated. Courage against right of January 6, 2007

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 6.3 "  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 18.5"  E