Jewish cemetery (Gehrden)
The Gehrden Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Lower Saxony city of Gehrden in the Hanover region . It is a protected cultural monument .
There are 73 gravestones in the cemetery on Gehrdener Berg above the brewery path .
The cemetery was occupied from 1752 to 1935.
history
The first Jewish family settled in Gehrden at the beginning of the 18th century. The Gehrden synagogue community was formed, to which the towns of Groß Goltern, Hohenbostel, Landringhausen, Ronnenberg, Winninghausen and, since 1871, Empelde and Holtensen also belonged.
In a “purchase contract” dated July 21, 1759, “Bürgermstr. and Rath des Fleckens Gehrden ”to the“ Calenberg Protective Jew Salomon Heinemann ”that he would receive“ a place for burial in the mutt mountain (like the old Jew Philip Abraham) ”. In the middle of the 19th century, the cemetery was expanded by 65.5 square meters as part of the coupling and expansion of the Feldmark. In Groß Munzel (1841) and Ronnenberg (1846) separate Jewish cemeteries were established. Today the city of Gehrden owns the Jewish cemetery in Gehrden.
literature
- Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich, Antje C. Naujoks: Gehrden. 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, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 595-603 (Jüdischer Friedhof Gehrden, p. 599, p. 602).
- Documentation by Friedel Homeyer on behalf of the Hanover district (1982).
- Friedel Homeyer: The Jewish cemetery in Gehrden. In: Yesterday and Today. Jews in the Hanover district. Hannover 1984, DNB 850420601 , pp. 219-224.
- Hans-Erich Wilhelm: The Gehrdener Israelitische Synagogengemeinde. Life and Suffering of Jewish Citizens. Ed .: German-Israeli Society - Working Group Hanover, Hanover 1992.
Web links
- Gehrden. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. here: Lower Saxony
- Places of remembrance - the Jewish cemetery in Gehrden
- Press article Cemetery cleared of leaves. Jewish life should be remembered from November 30, 2010
Barsinghausen (Old Cemetery) | Barsinghausen (New Cemetery) | Bolzum | Burgdorf | Eldagsen | Gehrden | Gestorf | Gleidingen | Groß Munzel | Hanover (Old Cemetery) | Hanover (Bothfeld) | Hanover (Strangriede) | Holtensen | Mandelsloh | Neustadt am Rübenberge | Pattensen (Old Cemetery) | Pattensen (New Cemetery) | Ronnenberg | Schulenburg | Jump (Old Cemetery) | Jump (New Cemetery) | Steinhude | Völksen | Wunstorf (old cemetery) | Wunstorf (New Cemetery)
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 32.6 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 30.2" E
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Gehrden. In: Lexicon of Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 , pp. 1401 f.
- ↑ Hans-Erich Wilhelm: The Gehrden Israelitische Synagogengemeinde. Life and Suffering of Jewish Citizens, Ed .: German-Israeli Society - Working Group Hanover, Hanover 1992, p. 69 (illustration of the document from the Gehrden City Archives, No. 51)
- ^ Friedel Homeyer: The Jewish cemetery in Gehrden. In: Yesterday and Today. Jews in the Hanover district. Hanover 1984, p. 219.