Jewish cemetery (Dargun)

Jewish cemetery in the Dargun castle wall 1880 - top left - signature L

The Dargun Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery near the town of Dargun in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is considered a cultural monument .

Jewish cemetery in Wendish castle Dargun

Memorial stone of the Dargun Jewish cemetery, in the base - broken tombstones

Gravestones and borders - Dargun Jewish Cemetery

description

Jewish cemeteries were designated as burial places on the official maps and were signed with an L instead of a †. Mostly they were created further outside the cities or communities, mainly in the barn districts or similar remote locations. Here in Dargun, the square was laid out about 2.5 kilometers southwest of the city in the middle of a deciduous forest. It is located on a hill that rises centrally in the middle of a Wendish rampart. The cemetery is 900 m². There are only three undamaged stones left, the others were smashed after 1938. Broken stones and grave borders are still numerous.

history

The cemetery was built inside an old Wendish castle complex in the 18th century and comprises about 9 ares. It is recorded on the Schmettauschen map, so it already exists before 1780. The Jewish community was dissolved in the 1920s. The last burial took place at this time. The cemetery was largely destroyed during the National Socialist era . It was not until 1963 that the cemetery was repaired - as far as possible - and a memorial was created. The memorial stone rises on a base made of fragments of destroyed tombstones. The grave borders and bases of around ten gravestones and two gravestones from 1917 are still preserved in the cemetery.

literature

• Michael Brocke , Eckehart Ruthenberg, Kai Uwe Schulenburg: Evidence of Jewish culture. Memorial sites in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia . Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1992, pp. 26-27 u. P. 289. ISBN 3-350-00780-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=218957&lang=de

Web links

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

• Literature on Jewish cemetery (Dargun) in the state bibliography MV
• Dargun (DM) at Alemannia Judaica
• Website of the city of Dargun, information page on the Jewish history of Dargun with photos on the website of the Land und People e. V. (under projects)

Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 28.8 "  N , 12 ° 49 ′ 35.3"  E