Jewish cemetery (Rehburg)

Entrance to the Rehburg Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Rehburg is a Jewish cemetery in the district of Rehburg in the town of Rehburg-Loccum ( Nienburg / Weser district , Lower Saxony ). It is a protected cultural monument .

description

There are 35 Jewish graves in the 2430 m² cemetery on "Düsselburger Strasse" / "Am Gieseberg", which is located on a hill and was laid out around 1850. There are 30 tombstones for the Jewish deceased from Rehburg and the surrounding area from the period 1855 to 1932.

history

Grounds of the cemetery

The cemetery was initially fenced in with a wall; this was replaced by a wall in 1913. The last burial took place in 1932 , and the cemetery was closed in 1939. The cemetery was desecrated during the National Socialist era . The gaps in the rows of graves still testify to this today. At that time part of the cemetery area was sold to a sawmill, so that the cemetery was only 1500 m² in size. It was repaired in 1950. As part of the land consolidation carried out in the early 1960s, the cemetery area was given its current size. The cemetery has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony since 1960 . The city of Rehburg-Loccum is responsible for maintenance.

See also

• List of stumbling blocks in Rehburg-Loccum

literature

• Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich and Antje C. Naujoks: Rehburg (today Rehburg-Loccum). 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. 1298-1302.

Documentation with the photos and the translation of the inscriptions of all stones was carried out in 1989/1990 by the regional association and the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany .

Web links

• Description of the cemetery and graves with inscriptions on the stones
• Rehburg. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany; here: Lower Saxony
• 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 pages), Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 ( online )
• After 80 years: Nazi survivor returns (to Rehburg-Loccum) on May 6, 2018 on ndr.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 55 "  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 39.4"  E