Jewish cemetery (Gestorf)
The Gestorf Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Gestorf district of the Lower Saxony city of Springe in the Hanover region . It is a protected cultural monument .
There are 22 tombstones in the cemetery on the K 216 from Gestorf to Völksen . The oldest is from 1783.
history
The cemetery was occupied from 1783 to 1932. In 1928 several tombstones were knocked over and smashed there. The cemetery was closed in June 1939, and in 1944 it was sold to private individuals by the mayor in Hanover. The cemetery is now owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony .
literature
- Tamar Avraham: Eldagsen (today Springe-Eldagsen). 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. 524–533 (Jewish cemetery Gestorf: pp. 531 f.)
- Documentation by Friedel Homeyer on behalf of the Hanover district (1982)
- Friedel Homeyer: The Jewish cemetery in Gestorf. In: Yesterday and Today. Jews in the Hanover district. Hannover 1984, pp. 260-263.
Web links
Commons : Jewish Cemetery - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Jewish cemetery Gestorf in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
- Gestorf. 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: 52 ° 12 '53 " N , 9 ° 41' 28.1" E