Jewish cemetery (Bad Gandersheim)
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.
literature
- Anke Quast: Gandersheim (today Bad Gandersheim). 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. 591–595 (Jewish cemetery: pp. 593 f.)
Web links
Commons : Jewish Cemetery - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Bad Gandersheim. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
- Bad Gandersheim. Political Resistance and Persecution. In: Topography of Memory - Southern Lower Saxony
- Bad Gandersheim. History of the culture of remembrance. In: Topography of Memory - Southern Lower Saxony
- Kurzeitung 4/2007 page 6-7
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 '22 " N , 10 ° 1' 13.5" E