Jewish cemetery (Ovelgönne)
The Ovelgönne Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Ovelgönne ( Wesermarsch district , Lower Saxony ).
The 573 m² cemetery not far from Wilhelm-Rahden-Straße on the field path “Zum Judenfriedhof” was applied for in 1795 and was only created in 1811. On the 43 tombstones there are inscriptions for Jews who died between 1811 and 1930 and were buried here.
literature
- Werner Meiners : Ovelgönne. 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, pp. 1241-1247; ISBN 3-89244-753-5
- Ovelgönne. In: Johannes-Fritz Töllner: The Jewish cemeteries in the Oldenburger Land. Inventory of the preserved tombstones. (Oldenburger Studien 25), Oldenburg 1983, pp. 312–341 (therein: history, photos and inscriptions); ISBN 3-87358-181-7
Web links
- Ovelgönne. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
- Ovelgönne
Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 8 ° 23 ′ 13 ″ E