Jewish cemetery (Barnstorf)
The Barnstorf Jewish Cemetery is a well-preserved Jewish cemetery in Barnstorf ( Diepholz district , Lower Saxony ). It is a protected cultural monument .
description
The cemetery is on the street "Am Rosengarten". 12 tombstones document Jewish deceased persons from the years 1876 to 1936. There is also a memorial stone for Russian prisoners of war in the cemetery.
history
The cemetery was first mentioned in a document in 1801. In 1879/80 it was expanded and fenced in. During construction work on a house in 1999, a Jewish tombstone was found and taken to the cemetery.
On the night of January 23-24, 1932, two tombs were desecrated in the Jewish cemetery. (On the night of the crime, a NSDAP ball was held in Barnstorf .) The perpetrators were not identified.
literature
- Barnstorf (including Cornau and Drebber ) is included in the article by Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich et al. Antje C. Naujoks: Diepholz. 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, pp. 468-478
Web links
- Barnstorf. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
- Barnstorf. In: Jewish regional history in the district of Diepholz
Barenburg | Barnstorf | Bassum | Diepholz | Lemförde-Quernheim | Sulingen | Syke | Twistringen | Wagenfeld
Coordinates: 52 ° 42 ′ 25.1 ″ N , 8 ° 30 ′ 1.4 ″ E