Jewish cemetery (Adelebsen)
The Jewish cemetery Adelebsen is a Jewish cemetery in spots Adelebsen in Lower Saxony Göttingen district . It is a protected cultural monument .
description
The 3,918 m² cemetery is located about 500 meters outside of the village on the Offenser Landstrasse leading to the west on a steep slope on the right-hand side. There are 229 tombstones in the cemetery .
history
The cemetery was occupied from 1733 to 1948. From 1675, Jewish residents were first mentioned in the head tax registers in Adelebsen. The Jewish community grew over time. In the middle of the 19th century, because of the high proportion of Jewish residents, the name "Little Jerusalem" was popularly used for Adelebsen. In 1848, for example, 192 of the 1470 residents of the place were Jewish, which was about 13%. By the turn of the century, the proportion of the Jewish population fell significantly. With the strengthening of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), the proportion continued to decrease. In 1929 tombstones were knocked over. In 1942 the last twelve Jews of Adelebsen were deported to the Warsaw ghetto and the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Of these, only Noa Rothschild returned in 1945 as the only survivor. He died in 1948 and was the last member of the Jewish community to be buried in the cemetery.
literature
- Berndt Schaller , Eike Dietert: On the steep slope. The Jewish cemetery in Adelebsen: memory of a destroyed community. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-941875-14-2 (online at: univerlag.uni-goettingen.de )
- Eike Dietert: Adelebsen. 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, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 89-97.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 34 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 29.2" E