Jewish cemetery (Aurich)

The Jewish cemetery in Aurich

The Aurich Jewish cemetery is located outside the historic city center of Aurich on Emder Straße. It is not open to the public, but can be visited as part of city tours. After the fall of the associated community at the time of National Socialism, the cemetery is only rarely used for funerals. A total of around 350 tombstones have been preserved. This makes it the second largest Jewish cemetery in East Frisia .

history

The Jewish community of Aurich initially buried their dead in the oldest Jewish cemetery in East Frisia in the north . On October 12, 1764, the Aurich Jews asked the Prussian Royal War and Domain Chamber for "permission to create a cemetery near the city of Aurich". The authorities granted this request. The community was then able to purchase the property in 1764, which began to be occupied a year later. Just a few years later, in 1780, the community appointed its own "churchyard manager" for the cemetery system. In 1866 the community wanted to expand the cemetery for the first time. However, the permit required for this was refused. The reason given was that a large part of the existing area was unoccupied and was rented out for growing potatoes and vegetables. In 1911, the community was finally able to almost double the cemetery area by purchasing neighboring plots. The cemetery is then occupied until the end of the community in 1940. After the end of the Second World War, there were only a few funerals, for example in 1998 and 2007.

See also

• History of the Jews in East Frisia
• List of Jewish cemeteries in East Frisia

literature

• Ostfriesisches Kultur- und Bildungszentrum der Ostfriesische Landschaft (Ed.): From the history of the Aurich Jewish community 1592-1940 , volumes 1 and 2, 4th edition, Aurich 1982.
• Herbert Reyer: Aurich. In: Herbert Obenaus et al. (Ed.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 ; Pp. 126-151
• Herbert Reyer, Martin Tielke (ed.): Frisia Judaica. Contributions to the history of the Jews in East Friesland , Aurich 1988, ISBN 3-925365-40-0 .
• Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft (Ed.): The end of the Jews in Ostfriesland , catalog for the exhibition of the Ostfriesische Landschaft on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Aurich 1988, ISBN 3-925365-41-9 .

Web links

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

• Aurich. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Lower Saxony.
• Aurich Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica .
• Documentation of the grave inscriptions. (PDF; 443 kB) In: Alemannia Judaica .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City tour ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Aurich.de, accessed on January 19, 2013.  
2. ↑ Kerstin Singer: A place of memory and life , in Ostfriesen-Zeitung from May 5, 2012.
3. ^ Karl Anklam: The Jewish community in Aurich . In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism , Vol. 71 (1927), No. 4, pp. 194–206.
4. ^ Jewish cemetery Aurich , Alemania Judaica, accessed on January 19, 2013.

Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 15.6 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 20"  E