Jewish cemetery (Bremervörde)

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The Jewish cemetery Bremervörde is a Jewish cemetery in Bremervörde ( Rotenburg (Wümme) district , Lower Saxony ). It is a protected cultural monument .

description

In the 998 m² cemetery in the “Höhne” area there are 30 tombstones for Jews from Bremervörde and the surrounding area who died between 1767 and 1934.

history

Based on a request from 1767 , a cemetery was set up on a pasture and hedge plot made available by the Fleckensgemeinde. The cemetery remained undamaged during the Second World War . Today the city of Bremervörde takes care of the maintenance of the cemetery, which has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony since 1960 .

literature

In addition, there is a documentation (copy of the German inscriptions, photos and allocation plan) that Klaus-Peter Schulz (Kreisheimatmuseum Osterholz) created in 1982, 1985 and 1997. The translation of the inscriptions of all stones was done in 1989/1990 by the regional association / the central archive.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 , p. 345, p. 349

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 35.5 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 13.2 ″  E