Jewish cemetery (Bederkesa)

The Bederkesa Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Bederkesa- Fickmühlen , a district of the Bad Bederkesa town of Geestland in the Cuxhaven district of Lower Saxony .

description

The 602 m² cemetery , which was occupied from 1754 to 1902, is located in the Holzurburg Forest (Am Kleiner Holz) on the L 117 . There are 8 tombstones on it. The cemetery, which was laid out in 1754, was only 160 m² in size; it had to be expanded twice in the 19th century.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Geestland

literature

• Jürgen Bohmbach : Bederkesa (today Bad Bederkesa). 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, pages 184-187; ISBN 3-89244-753-5
• There is a documentation from the years 1980-85 by Klaus-Peter Schulz, Kreisheimatmuseum Osterholz.

Web links

• Bederkesa. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony

Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '27.9 "  N , 8 ° 50' 53.2"  E