Jewish cemetery (Bad Pyrmont, Am Helsen)

Am Helsen cemetery

Tombstones

The Jewish cemetery Am Helsen in the Lower Saxony town of Bad Pyrmont in the Hameln-Pyrmont district is a cultural monument .

The 400 square meter cemetery is far outside the city to the north of Am Helsen . There are four tombstones on it .

history

The cemetery was rebuilt in 1934 to replace the cemetery on Bombergallee, which was closed by the city . It was occupied from 1935 to 1937. In 1938 the stones were removed. In 1945 the cemetery was restored.

literature

• Heinrich Rostmann: Pyrmont (today Bad Pyrmont). 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. 1291-1298.
• Documentation by the regional association / central archive (1989/1990) and by Bernhard Gelderblom (1990).

Web links

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

• Bad Pyrmont (Am Helsen). In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• Bernhard Gelderblom: The Jewish cemetery in Pyrmont
• Bad Pyrmont. Jewish cemetery on Helsen