Jewish cemetery (Wingst)

The Jewish cemetery in the Wingster Forest. It is located between Cadenberge and the Wingst waterworks.

Different graves in summer

The Wingst Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Wingst community (combined community of Land Hadeln ) in the Cuxhaven district in Lower Saxony .

description

The 2461 m² cemetery , which is located on Alten Postweg in Wingst-Kiebitzmoor, was occupied between 1767 and 1926. There are 26 tombstones on it.

The cemetery is divided into two parts. In the older part there are still five gravestones, the oldest dating from 1802. There is also a prehistoric barrow here. The younger part of the cemetery was laid out in 1850. This is where the other tombstones are.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Wingst

literature

• Jürgen Bohmbach : Neuhaus ad Oste. 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, pages 1087-1091; ISBN 3-89244-753-5
• Rudolf Lembcke: The Jewish cemetery in Wingst. In: Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt [= supplement of the Nordsee-Zeitung / Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung]. No. 287 (1973) and No. 307 (1975).
• Documentation is available from Klaus-Peter Schulz, Osterholz District Home Museum.
• Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, published by Christiane Seger-Glocke, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publication by the Institute for Monument Preservation - Volume 19, Cuxhaven district, edited by Doris Böker, Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln, 1997, ISBN 3-8271-8259- X , page 324

Web links

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

• Wingst. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• Photographs of all gravestones

Coordinates: 53 ° 45 '2.2 "  N , 9 ° 3' 4.9"  E