Jewish cemetery (Ronnenberg)

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Jewish cemetery in Ronnenberg

The Jewish cemetery Ronnenberg is a Jewish cemetery in the Lower Saxony city ​​of Ronnenberg in the Hanover region . It is a protected cultural monument .

There are nine tombstones on 13 graves in the 146 m² cemetery on the corner of Am Weingarten and Velsterstraße . He also has three symbolic graves with three headstones , which were erected at the instigation of two Jewish citizens of the former Ronnenberg community with the approval of the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony .

history

Since 1758 there are written records of Jews in Ronnenberg. They belonged to the Gehrden synagogue community and probably buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Gehrden . Around 1830 the Jewish merchant Feissel Seligmann from Ronnenberg bought a corner of the parish garden for a Jewish cemetery from the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Ronnenberg. His father Samuel Seligmann was buried as the first to die on January 9, 1846 (11th Tewet 5606). The last funeral was for Regina Seligmann, who died on May 28, 1933. Between 1937 and 1939, the entire Jewish community of Ronnenberg was expelled from the Nazi terror. In 1952 the cemetery became the property of the Jewish Trust Corporation (JTC), and in 1960 it was handed over to the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony . He was desecrated in 1966. In 1958 the area was looked after by the Protestant youth, in 1977 Erwin Franz from Gehrden took over the maintenance. In 1999 the city of Ronnenberg agreed with the Jewish regional association to maintain the cemetery.

In 2001, the American Fritz G. Cohen (now Chicago ) , who was expelled from Ronnenberg in 1938, erected a symbolic grave with a tombstone for his grandmother, Lina Cohen from Ronnenberg, who died in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943 . In 2019, at the instigation of the Ronnenberg Jew Heinz Seligmann ( Rio de Janeiro ), who was expelled in 1937, two more symbolic graves with gravestones were created for his father Siegmund Seligmann and his brother Kurt Julius Seligmann.

In 2013 the city of Ronnenberg had a Holocaust memorial erected opposite the Jewish cemetery for the murdered and expelled Jews from Ronnenberg. Stolpersteine were laid in Ronnenberg for 25 Jews, including Lina and Fritz Cohen as well as Heinz and Siegmund Seligmann .

literature

  • Friends of Remembrance Work Ronnenberg (Ed.): Stolpersteine ​​in Ronnenberg, Ronnenberg 2019.
  • Peter Hertel: Die Juden von Ronnenberg - Part 1: 1700-1933 (cemetery with riddles, pp. 65–70), Ed .: Stadt Ronnenberg, writings on urban development, vol. 4, Ronnenberg 2012.
  • Peter Hertel and Christiane Buddenberg-Hertel: The Jews of Ronnenberg. A city confesses to its past , publisher: Region Hannover, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-7752-4903-4 .
  • Friedel Homeyer: The Jewish cemetery in Ronnenberg. In: Yesterday and Today. Jews in the Hanover district. Hannover 1984, pp. 246-248.
  • Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich / Antje C. Naujoks: Gehrden. 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. 595-602 (Jüdischer Friedhof Ronnenberg: p. 599, p. 602).
  • Documentation by Friedel Homeyer on behalf of the Hanover district (1982)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Friends of Remembrance Work Ronnenberg (ed.): The Jewish cemetery - The Jewish cemetry, in: Stolpersteine ​​in Ronnenberg, Ronnenberg 2019, p. 42 f.
  2. ↑ Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich / Antje C. Naujoks: Gehrden, in: Historical Handbook of Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Ed .: Herbert Obenaus in collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel. tape 1 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, p. 596 .
  3. ^ Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Gehrden . In: Lexicon of Jewish communities in the German-speaking area . tape 1 . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 , p. 1402 .
  4. ↑ Peter Hertel: The Jews of Ronnenberg - Part 1: 1700-1933 . In: Stadt Ronnenberg (Ed.): Writings on urban development . tape 4 . Ronnenberg 2012, p. 68 .
  5. ^ Peter Hertel and Christiane Buddenberg-Hertel: The Jews of Ronnenberg. A city confesses to its past . Ed .: Region Hannover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-7752-4903-4 , p. 54-132 .
  6. ↑ Förderverein remembrance Ronnenberg (ed.): City Ronnenberg recalls - Ronnenberg Ciy remembers , in: Stolpersteine in Ronnenberg, Ronnenberg 2019, p.44 f.
  7. ^ Ronnenberg Friends of Remembrance Work (Ed.): 25 Stolpersteine ​​- 25 Stumbling Stones, in: Stolpersteine ​​in Ronnenberg, Ronnenberg 2019, pp. 8–9 and 22–35

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 59.9 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 18 ″  E