Jewish cemetery (Aschendorf)

The Jewish cemetery on the road from Aschendorf to Tunxdorf

Old gravestones in the Jewish cemetery

New tombstone (2015) in the Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Aschendorf , a district of the city of Papenburg in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony , is a protected cultural monument .

description

There are 75 gravestones in the 2555 m² cemetery on the road to Tunxdorf .

history

The cemetery, which existed at least since 1748, was occupied from 1805 to 1937. From 1954 it was owned by the Jewish Trust Corporation (JTC) and since 1959 it has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony . From 1959, a nursery was responsible for maintaining the cemetery and the Papenburg Garden and Cemetery Office has been responsible since 1982. The cemetery has been repeatedly destroyed since the beginning of the 20th century: gravestones were damaged in 1912, 1928, 1929 and during the Nazi era . It was also desecrated after the Second World War in 1949, 1953, 1955 and 1971. Repairs were carried out in 1951/1952, 1958, 1978, 1987 and 1989.

literature

Heike Düselder: Aschendorf. 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. 114-120.
Jewish cemeteries in Emsland. Edited by the district of Emsland. Meppen 1991, pp. 10-13.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ 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 , p. 117.
^ 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 , p. 119.

53.070669 7.319232Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 14.4 " N , 7 ° 19 ′ 9.2" E

[1] 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 , p. 117.

[2] 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 , p. 119.