Jewish cemetery (Hagenow)

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Cemetery in the 1940s

The Hagenow Jewish cemetery was a Jewish cemetery in Hagenow in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

description

The cemetery was on the southwestern edge of the city - on today's Friedrich-Heincke-Straße - and was accessible from the north and west. In 1949, there were still 35 tombstones on the site, which was enclosed by a man-high stone wall .

history

The Jewish community, which has been based in Hagenow since 1784, first had to bury its dead in a cemetery in Schwerin. It was not only cumbersome but also costly. Therefore, in 1806, the municipality applied for the acquisition of a piece of arable land on “Pätower Weg”. After permission was granted, the community had the cemetery set up on the property.

The Jewish community paid a rental fee for the cemetery property, but it was not the owner of the property. The land register entry was missing, as the city administration of Hagenow informed the Schwerin Ministry of Spiritual Affairs on April 4, 1919.

On November 25, 1937, the last burial was held in the cemetery. On this day, community leader Samuel Opinions found his final resting place.

The cemetery was not desecrated during the reign of the Nazi regime . The Hagenow synagogue , however, was not spared. It was desecrated inside during the pogrom night of November 9, 1938 and set on fire outside. However, residents of the synagogue were able to put out the fire. The property of the Jewish trader Hermann Augen and the Jewish doctor Hans Sommerfeld were also targeted that night.

In December 1940 the Hagenow Jewish community was dissolved. The Reich Association of Jews in Germany then took over the entire community property as legal successor .

The cemetery survived the following war and post-war years unscathed. Therefore, on December 28, 1949, the city ​​council of Hagenow decided to prepare the cemetery as a memorial . However, the project was not implemented. Eventually followed in 1955, the leveling of the entire site and the building. The VEB Stadtwirtschaft Hagenow settled on the site . After German reunification , another commercial use followed, which only ended when the site was cleared in 2010. During the clearing, the tombstone of the last community leader, Samuel Opinions, and his wife was secured. He was found in the foundations of a barrack built there. The very well-preserved tombstone is now part of a permanent exhibition in the Old Synagogue .

today

Since 2012, the city of Hagenow and the regional association of Jewish communities have been working on restoring the site as a memorial. The 1700 m² site is accessible today and serves as a place of remembrance.

A memorial stone - made of polished granite - reminds in its inscription of the Jewish families who had their relatives buried in the cemetery in Hagenow. The inscription on the memorial stone reads: " The hoard - its work is perfect, for all its ways are righteousness " (list of family names) " May their souls be united with the souls of our ancestors Abraham , Isaac and Jacob and our ancestors Sarah , Rebekah , Rachel and Leah , as well as all the pious in Paradise, Amen ”.

Complementary

During the First World War there were several prisoner-of-war camps in the area around Hagenow , in which soldiers of the Jewish faith were also interned. Two of the Jewish prisoners of war who died there were buried in the Hagenow community cemetery.

See also

Literature and Sources

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ).
  • Klaus Arlt: Evidence of Jewish Culture: Memorials in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. Tourist Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-350-00780-6 .
  • Leopold Donath : History of the Jews in Mecklenburg: from the oldest times (1266) to the most recent times (1874). Publishing house Oskar Leiner, Leipzig 1874.
  • Helmut Eschwege : History of the Jews in the territory of the former GDR. Volume III. Self-published, Dresden 1990.
  • Jürgen Borchert : What remained ...: Jewish traces in Mecklenburg. Haude & Spener publishing house, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-775-90391-2 .

Printed sources

  • HG Vormann: Architectural history studies on the synagogues in Mecklenburg. TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig 2010, p. 395 f.

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • Holdings: (5.12-7 / 1) 9048, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry for Education, Art, Spiritual and Medical Matters: Cemetery of the Israelite community in: u. a. Hagenow (1806-1848), term: 1762-1850.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ HG Vormann: Architectural history studies on the synagogues in Mecklenburg . TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig 2010, p. 395.
  2. ↑ a b Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The cities of Mecklenburg in the Third Reich: a handbook on urban development under National Socialism. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-837840-29-2 , p. 228.
  3. ^ In: SVZ / Hagenower Kreisblatt dated March 12, 1998.
  4. ↑ Axel Seitz: Hagenow: grandfather's tombstone. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. November 18, 2011, accessed June 5, 2018 .
  5. ^ Hagenow redevelops the Jewish cemetery In: SVZ of October 10, 2012, accessed on April 30, 2016.
  6. ^ Cemetery gets dignity back In: SVZ from October 22, 2014, accessed on April 30, 2016.
  7. ↑ LHAS inventory: (10.72-3 / 1) 143, correspondence between the “Central Office for War Graves” and the city of Hagenow. Duration: 1931.

Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 33.2 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 23.2"  E