Jewish cemetery (Hessisch Oldendorf)

Jewish cemetery since 1832

The Jewish cemetery in the Lower Saxon town of Hessisch Oldendorf in the Hameln-Pyrmont district is a cultural monument .

The cemetery , which was occupied from 1839 to 1944, is located on the eastern edge of the city near the Christian cemetery at the Grandkuhle. There are 41 tombstones on it .

Memorial stone on the old Jewish cemetery in the northeast corner of the city wall

Old graveyard

An old Jewish cemetery is said to have existed in the northeast corner of the city wall from 1678 to 1832. Gravestones no longer exist. Today there is a memorial stone .

literature

• Erik Hoffmann: Hessisch Oldendorf. 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. 831-835 (Jewish cemetery Hessisch Oldendorf: p. 833, p. 835).
• Documentation by regional association / central archive (1989/1990) and by Bernhard Gelderblom (1994/1997).

See also

• Hessisch Oldendorf # Jewish history

Web links

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 12.3 "  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 45.7"  E