Jewish cemetery (Hämelschenburg)

Entrance gate to the Hämelschenburg Jewish cemetery, 2016

Inner surface

The Jewish cemetery in the Hämelschenburg district of the Lower Saxony community of Emmerthal in the Hameln-Pyrmont district is a cultural monument .

The 146 square meter cemetery is located on the northern edge of the old village on Rampenweg. There are two gravestones on it , both of which date from 1748 and some of which have been severely damaged. A stone is designed as a lying stone according to Sephardic custom.

history

The cemetery was occupied from 1748 at the latest. In 1830 it was owned by a Jew from Hämelschenburg. After the last Jews moved from there at the end of the 19th century, it was completely neglected. A few days after November 9, 1938 , the cemetery was destroyed by SA men from the neighboring village of Gellersen . After the Second World War , the gate of the cemetery was rebuilt. The overgrown property has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony since 2005 .

literature

• Bernhard Gelderblom : Ohsen / Grohnde (today districts of Emmerthal). 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. 1162–1172 (Jewish cemetery Hämelschenburg: p. 1171).
• Documentation by Landesverband / Zentralarchiv (1989/1990), Bernhard Gelderblom (1990) and Berndt Schaller (1997)

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Hämelschenburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hämelschenburg. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• Bernhard Gelderblom: The Jewish cemetery in Hämelschenburg

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 45.2 ″  N , 9 ° 20 ′ 21.8 ″  E