Jewish cemetery (Grevesmühlen)

The Jewish cemetery Grevesmühlen is a cemetery in Grevesmühlen ( Northwest Mecklenburg District , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).

The Jewish cemetery is on Vielbecker Weg. There are no more gravestones on it , but a memorial stone that was erected in 1948.

history

The cemetery was laid out in 1877. It was no longer used in the 1930s. In 1933 the last four Jews from Grevesmühlen emigrated. After that, the small Jewish cemetery fell into disrepair. During the Nazi era - in 1940 - it was desecrated and destroyed. To this day, the cemetery is maintained by the city and preserved as a memorial.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Grevesmühlen # Grevesmühlen (No. 537)

Web links

• Literature on Jewish cemetery (Grevesmühlen) in the state bibliography MV
• Jewish cemetery in Grevesmühlen near Alemannia Judaica
• The Jewish cemetery Grevesmühlen
• "The Jewish history in Grevesmühlen from the Middle Ages to the present"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jewish cemetery Grevesmühlen on books.google.de / In: Martin Kaule: Ostseeküste 1933–1945. With Poland and the Baltic States. The historical travel guide. Ch. Links Verlag, p. 51

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 31.5 "  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 52.2"  E