Jewish cemetery (Hagen in Bremen)

Gravestone on the Jewish cemetery in Hagen i. Br.

The Jewish cemetery in Hagen in Bremen is located in the municipality of Hagen in Bremen in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony .

description

The 1387 m² cemetery , which is located in the Döhren Forest , was occupied between 1786 and 1936. There are 79 tombstones on it. The most common names on the stones are Freudenberg (Uthlede), Gottschalk (Hagen and Sandstedt), Goldmann (Sandstedt), Goldschmidt (Hagen), Herzberg (Uthlede), Leeser (Bramstedt, Hagen and Uthlede) and Wolff (Hagen and Sandstedt).

history

The Jewish cemetery in Hagen is one of six in the district of Cuxhaven (Bad Bederkesa [1754], Wingst [1767], Midlum [1848], Beverstedt [1857] and Stotel [around 1860]). In 1786 the Jews of the community in Hagen acquired a burial place in the Döhren forest. At that time it was far outside the village, but is older than the Christian cemetery, which was inaugurated on April 30, 1856. On March 21, 1936, 74-year-old Bertha Herzberg from Uthlede was the last person to be buried in the Jewish cemetery.

Funeral of Ida Leeser

Gravestone of Ida Leeser (left) and Hannchen Leeser

On July 16, 1935, Ida Leeser, a handicraft teacher who was respected in Hagen, died. The local newspapers reported on the funeral.

“How little a large part of our population has been informed about the Jewish question was shown by a Jewish burial that recently took place in Hagen. Many German national comrades sent wreaths to the mourning house, and not a few national comrades went to the funeral of the deceased Jewish woman that afternoon. The rabbi also stated this when he greeted the German national comrades with a handshake. When the funeral procession then began to move towards the Israelite cemetery, the coffins on the Christian hearse followed in mixed confusion with the Jews of German comrades. This process would like to be recorded. "

- Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung , July 26, 1935 : Unter der Staleke 146, p. 26

“On Friday last week a Jewish woman was buried in Hagen. ... Doesn't anyone know the saying of the Franconian leader Julius Streicher in his Stürmer, who says: Wherever the Jews are at court, citizens and peasants have to deal with them? "

- Norddeutsche Volkszeitung and Osterholzer Nachrichten, July 25, 1935 : Unter der Staleke 146, p. 26

The mourners moved from Ida Leeser's house (today Amtsplatz 5) over today's Amtsdamm in the direction of Bramstedt and turned right to the "Döhren" wooded area, on the edge of which is the Jewish cemetery.

literature

Jürgen Bohmbach : Hagen. 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, pages 688-690; ISBN 3-89244-753-5
Hansdieter Kurth, Life in the Jewish Community of Hagen, series in the local newspaper "Unter der Staleke", No. 143 ff
Luise Bär, Synagogue founder Gottschalk is also buried here, Staleke publisher Hansdieter Kurth took around 50 interested people on a tour of the Jewish cemetery in Hagen, Osterholzer Kreisblatt, July 19, 2013

Individual evidence

↑ Hansdieter Kurth, Life in the Jewish Community of Hagen, Unter der Staleke 146, p. 26
↑ Hansdieter Kurth, Life in the Jewish Community of Hagen, Unter der Staleke 146, p. 26
↑ The hearse was a donation from Adolf Goldschmidt (Blumenstrasse) to the Hagen parish.

Web links

53.356406 8.657009Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '23.1 " N , 8 ° 39' 25.2" E

[1] Hansdieter Kurth, Life in the Jewish Community of Hagen, Unter der Staleke 146, p. 26

[2] Hansdieter Kurth, Life in the Jewish Community of Hagen, Unter der Staleke 146, p. 26

[3] The hearse was a donation from Adolf Goldschmidt (Blumenstrasse) to the Hagen parish.