Jewish cemetery (Lüneburg)

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The Lüneburg Jewish Cemetery in the city of Lüneburg in the Lower Saxony district of Lüneburg is a protected cultural monument .

There are 14 tombstones in the 2082 m² cemetery located at Am Neuen Felde 10 . These were used in the construction of a makeshift RAD home built during the Nazi era and appeared under the foundations when the home was demolished in 1967.

history

The cemetery was laid out in 1823. Before that, the Lüneburg Jews had buried their dead for around 140 years in the Harburg Jewish Cemetery, which is around 40 km away .

During the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938, the cemetery was devastated: gravestones were knocked over and the green spaces destroyed. One last funeral took place in 1939. The overturned tombstones were used in 1944 as the floor for a makeshift home of the RAD on the neighboring property.

In 1952 the cemetery became the property of the Jewish Trust Corporation (JTC), and in 1960 it was handed over to the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony . The chapel, damaged during the Nazi era, was repaired in 1960. In 1965 the city put a memorial stone for the Lüneburg Jews. However, this cemetery cannot be found in the city map to this day.

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  1. ↑ a b c Rainer Sabelleck: Lüneburg. 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. 1021f.
  2. ↑ Rainer Sabel leak: Lüneburg. 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 , p. 1011.
  3. ^ VVN Lüneburg: From the concentration camp cemetery to the rhododendron park . Lüneburg 2016. p. 51.

Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 32 "  N , 10 ° 23 ′ 47.7"  E