Jewish cemetery (Achim)
The Jewish cemetery Achim is a Jewish cemetery in Achim ( Verden district , Lower Saxony ) and is protected as a cultural monument.
description
The Achim synagogue community set up a burial place for all Jews in the Achim area in 1865, as the nearest eternity fields in Hoyerhagen and Hastedt were about 30 kilometers away. There are 56 tombstones for Jews from Achim and the surrounding area, who died between 1867 and 1935, in the approximately 1,000 square meter cemetery on the “An der Eisenbahn” street . During this period, at least 61 members of the Achim synagogue community were buried there.
In the course of the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the Jewish cemetery in Achim was also heavily devastated; In 1942 the Achim community wanted to convert the cemetery back into arable land. But that did not happen because the Reich Security Main Office initially wanted to have the value of the gravestones determined, but this did not take place until the end of the war in 1945. The Jewish cemetery then deteriorated more and more until 2002.
An exhibition in the Achim town hall in September 2010 provided comprehensive information about the Jewish cemetery for the first time.
literature
- Antje C. Naujoks: Achim 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. 83-88.
swell
- Article in the district newspaper of September 7, 2010 , accessed on December 17, 2014
Web links
- Achim. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
- Cemetery of the synagogue community Achim
Coordinates: 53 ° 0 '48.4 " N , 9 ° 2' 52.4" E