Jewish cemetery (Wildeshausen)

The cemetery

Gravestone for Rebecka Wax

The Jewish cemetery Wildeshausen is a fairly well-preserved Jewish cemetery in Wildeshausen ( Oldenburg district , Lower Saxony ). It is a protected cultural monument .

description

There are 86 tombstones for Jews from Wildeshausen and the surrounding area who died between 1787 and 1919 in the cemetery , located north of the Wildeshauser town center on the corner of “Delmenhorster Straße” and “Im Hagen” .

The oldest surviving tombstone in this cemetery is the tombstone for Eljukam BR Jhuda Koopmann from Berne, who died in 1787.

There is also a memorial / information board near the entrance gate. It is a bronze plate that is screwed onto an uncut granite stone . It bears the following text (in the original in capital letters):

"This Jewish cemetery / was established in 1707 / the last burial took place here in 1938 / there is evidence of a Jewish community / since the 14th century in Wildeshausen / through death and displacement during the Nazi era / found the former Jewish community / at Wildeshausen / in 1940 a sad end / by taking care of this final resting place / the city of Wildeshausen / honors the memory of its / former Jewish fellow citizens // Wildeshausen in November 1988 // citizenship council administration / the city of Wildeshausen "

There is also a memorial in the middle of the cemetery with the following inscription:

"REST HERE / FOREIGN / WAR DEAD / 1939 - 1945 / THE DEAD / FOR HONOR / THE LIVING / FOR ADMINISTRATION."

history

The Jews from Wildeshausen and the surrounding area buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Wildeshausen since 1711. It was used as a burial place not only by the Jewish community in Wildeshausen, but also by the Jewish communities in Harpstedt , Delmenhorst , Kirchhatten , Ganderkesee and Berne .

See also

• List of Jewish cemeteries in the Oldenburger Land

literature

• Werner Meiners : History of the Jews in Wildeshausen , Oldenburg 1988
• Wildeshausen. In: Johannes-Fritz Töllner: The Jewish cemeteries in the Oldenburger Land. Inventory of the preserved tombstones. (Oldenburger Studien 25), Oldenburg 1983, pp. 595–648 (therein: history, photos and inscriptions); ISBN 3-87358-181-7 .
• Werner Meiners : Wildeshausen. 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. 1544–1551 (with 3 illustrations).

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Wildeshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wildeshausen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• Jewish cemetery in Wildeshausen near " Alemannia Judaica "
• Wildeshausen Jewish cemetery
• Jewish life in Wildeshausen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Töllner, 1983, page 633.

Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 6.1 ″  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 35.5 ″  E