Jewish cemetery (Penkun)

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Jewish cemetery Penkun 1880 - center below above the mill and clay pit

The Penkun Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Penkun in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

description

The cemetery was south of the city on Wartiner Weg. It was a small, rectangular space of around 300 to 400 m². Jewish cemeteries were designated as burial places on the official maps and were signed with an L instead of a †. Here the table sheet from 1880 shows only an indistinct signature and no inscription. Most of the time, the squares were created far outside the cities or municipalities, mostly in the barn districts or similar remote locations. In Penkun, the cemetery was in the junction at the end of the local barn district.

history

Little is known about the history of the Jewish cemetery in Penkun. It is said to have been devastated around 1940. In 1952 it was neglected, almost overgrown and surrounded by a hedge. At that time there were still tombstones made of black granite. In the following years, the cemetery property was leveled and built over with the sports field. The tombstones disappeared.

literature

  • Michael Brocke, Eckehard Ruthenberg, Kai Uwe Schulenburg: Stone and Name. The Jewish cemeteries in East Germany (New Federal States / GDR and Berlin). Institute Church and Judaism Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-923095-19-8 . (This source contains numerous inaccuracies and errors and is therefore only of limited scientific and historical suitability.)
  • “Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism”, Volume II, Bonn 2000
  • Martin Kaule: Baltic Sea Coast 1933–1945. Ch. Links 2011, ISBN 9783861536116 .
  • Penkun. In: Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ). (not evaluated).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” of the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=165933&lang=de
  2. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” of the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=165933&lang=de

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Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '30.2 "  N , 14 ° 14' 2.3"  E