Jewish cemetery (Ahrensburg)
The Ahrensburg Jewish Cemetery is located in Ahrensburg in the Stormarn district ( Schleswig-Holstein ) on Wulfsdorfer Weg. The cemetery is 840 m² and is bordered by a hexagonal wall. Access is possible through a normally locked gate. Inside there are six oaks and three rows with a total of 23 tombstones , many with the name Lehmann. The complex is left to nature so that the graves are overgrown. Only the lawn is mowed regularly. A paved path leads to a memorial made of small boulders , which was established in 1994 , where a sign addresses the coexistence of Jews and Christians .
history
After the first Jewish citizens settled in Ahrensburg in 1788 , the Jewish community was founded in 1822 and the Jewish cemetery was set up in the same year. The first burial took place there a year later. It was fenced in in 1876, and a chapel was built near the entrance four years later . After the last burial was carried out in 1923, the cemetery was enclosed by a stone wall in 1930. During the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the chapel was set on fire and the graves desecrated. In 1941 the last Jew was deported from Ahrensburg . In 1959 the cemetery first went to an administration company and then to the Hamburg Jewish Community , until the State Association of the Jewish Communities of Schleswig-Holstein took over care in 2007 .
Web links
- School project with other sources
- Jewish cemeteries in Schleswig-Holstein - Ahrensburg (OD) near Alemannia Judaica
- Jewish cemetery - project page of the German advanced course of the Stormarn School in Ahrensburg
- Ahrensburg Jewish cemetery (1 photo)
- Website of the Ahrensburg Cemetery Administration
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 12.8 " N , 10 ° 12 ′ 24.6" E