Jewish cemeteries in Halberstadt

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Gate to the old Jewish cemetery in Halberstadt, Westendorf (2016)

The Jewish cemeteries in Halberstadt are three Jewish cemeteries in the district town of Halberstadt in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .

Old graveyard

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In 1644 the old cemetery on Sternstrasse was laid out on the so-called "Red Stocking". There are still about 150 weathered tombstones ; the oldest surviving tombstone dates from 1659. In 1938 the cemetery was desecrated by the National Socialists and some of the tombstones were used for anti-fragmentation trenches. In the spring of 1945, most of the more than 1,800 gravestones were used to build anti- tank barriers against the Allies advancing from Braunschweig , as a gravestone plan from 1945 in the documents of the city ​​archive shows.

Cemetery at the mountains

In 1695, the Am Berge cemetery was opened next to the oldest cemetery. Around 400 gravestones can still be found there in good condition, including those of personalities such as members of the Hirsch family and Berend Lehmann . This second cemetery was occupied until the 1930s.

New cemetery

In 1895 the third and youngest cemetery was laid out. It is located as part of the municipal cemetery on Klein-Quenstedter Chaussee and is a listed building . There are still 384 grave sites with around 300 gravestones. In the course of the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the “mourning hall” was burned down and blown up; the graves remained untouched with a few exceptions.

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 .

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