Jewish cemetery (Storkow)
The Jewish cemetery Storkow is a monument of the city of Storkow in Brandenburg . It was probably created in the 19th century and consists of almost 90 gravestones on 750 square meters. The graves are laid out in seven rows and were also built for Jewish residents from the Storkow area. The third row consists of thirteen children's graves. The oldest tombstone is from 1836, the youngest from 1934.
location
The Jewish cemetery is located in a wooded area on Reichenwalder Straße. The area surrounded by a wall is located southeast of the Storkower cemetery, which is only a few meters away.
history
The Jewish community in Storkow and the surrounding area was rather small at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1801 only four Jewish families with a total of 17 people lived here. The largest number of Jewish residents was recorded in 1860. At that time the Jewish community of Storkow consisted of 82 people, after which the number decreased again.
The oldest recognizable gravestone in the cemetery was erected in 1836 for the merchant Lipmann Siemon. The tombstone of the most important Jew from Storkow, Isaac Friedmann (born 1824) is in the second row. Friedmann was a master bookbinder and head of the Storkow synagogue community . Until his death in 1900 he also held the office of city councilor.
The two largest gravestones in the cemetery were erected for Löb (January 30, 1832 - August 29, 1908) and Ester Rosenberg (May 29, 1836 - January 24, 1915). The last burial (Magarete Todtmann) took place in January 1934 in the cemetery.
After the last Jewish citizens had to leave the city in 1942, the cemetery fell into disrepair and was not restored until 1988. In 2009 the cemetery gate was desecrated by strangers, but has since been repaired.
Today the cemetery is one of 60 surviving Jewish cemeteries in Brandenburg.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Jewish cemetery in Storkow near Alemannia Judaica
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 13 ° 56 ′ 39.6 ″ E