Jewish cemetery (Greifswald)

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Jewish cemetery Greifswald 1880 (marking on Gützkower Landstrasse)

The Jewish cemetery Greifswald was a Jewish cemetery in Greifswald in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

description

At first glance, the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald hardly shows any traces of the former presence of Jewish life. The Jewish cemetery, which was laid out south of what was then the city center after 1860, was no longer used as such in the late 1930s. It was on Gützkower Landstrasse (B 96), on the western side of the street. As a rule, the Jewish cemeteries were set up far outside the cities or municipalities, mainly in the Scheunenviertel or similar remote locations. In Greifswald, the cemetery was in the agricultural south of the city.

history

The dead of the Jewish community were buried in the cemetery in Niederhof near Brandshagen until 1850 , then probably for a few years in Stralsund . In 1860 Jewish community members bought a field and applied to the magistrate to set up their own Jewish cemetery. This has been approved. A piece of land was also bought at 7 Hunnenstrasse, where there was a shed that was used to house the hearse. The cemetery was surrounded by a wall and had a wrought iron gate with a Star of David above it. The cemetery was occupied until 1938. In 1941/42 it was largely cleared. A Wehrmacht barracks was built on the site and was blown up after the war. In 1949 there were still remnants of the boundary wall and some gravestones. After being transferred back to the newly established Jewish state community in Mecklenburg , it was sold to the city in 1951.

Today there is an industrial site on the site and it only exists in the memory of older Greifswalders. Only one tombstone is currently still kept in Greifswald Cathedral .

literature

  • Michael Brocke, Eckehard Ruthenberg, Kai Uwe Schulenburg: Stone and Name. The Jewish cemeteries in East Germany (New Federal States / GDR and Berlin). Institute Church and Judaism Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-923095-19-8 . (This source contains numerous inaccuracies and errors and is therefore only of limited scientific and historical suitability.)
  • “Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism”, Volume II, Bonn 2000
  • Martin Kaule: Baltic Sea Coast 1933–1945. Ch. Links 2011, ISBN 9783861536116 .
  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=187857&lang=de
  2. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=187857&lang=de

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Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 15.7 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 47.8 ″  E