Jewish cemetery (Bad Gandersheim)

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The Jewish cemetery Bad Gandersheim is a Jewish cemetery in the small town of Bad Gandersheim in the district of Northeim in Lower Saxony . It is a protected cultural monument .

On the 350 square meter cemetery , which at the Wiek is, there are 36 (or according to other sources 39) grave stones . The oldest preserved one dates from 1818.

history

The cemetery was occupied from 1777 to 1921. In 1837 it was fenced off. In 1939 it was devastated: tombstones were overturned and partially destroyed. It is not certain that all the stones that were later put back up are in their original place today.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 52 '22 "  N , 10 ° 1' 13.5"  E