Jewish cemetery (Boffzen)

The Boffzen Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Boffzen community ( Boffzen municipality ) in the Holzminden district of Lower Saxony . It is a protected cultural monument .

There are “at least 7” tombstones in the 418 m² cemetery on Untere Dorfstrasse . The occupancy time is unknown; the oldest stone dates from 1847.

In 1961 the cemetery was repaired. In 1977 the combined community took over the care of the cemetery. Around 1999 a boundary wall was completely rebuilt. In 2006, the municipality of Boffzen erected a memorial stone with the name plaque for the three residents of the village by the NS - persecution of Jews were killed.

literature

• Andreas Michelbrink / Antje C. Naujoks: Boffzen. 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. 233–236 (Boffzen Jewish cemetery: pp. 235 f.)

Web links

• Boffzen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• Integrated community of Boffzen. In: Topography of Memory in Southern Lower Saxony