Jewish cemetery (Lassan)

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The Lassan Jewish Cemetery was a Jewish cemetery in Lassan in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

description

The cemetery is southwest of Lassan. From the road in the direction of Anklam, a dirt road branches off to the left, which forks. The right part of the fork in the road leads to the cemetery, which is to the right of this path. Judging from the MTB 1880 map, it had an area of ​​approx. 400 to 500 m². Jewish cemeteries were designated as burial places on the official maps and were signed with an L instead of a †. Mostly they were created further outside the cities or communities, mainly in the barn districts or similar remote locations. In Lassan the cemetery was on the dirt road to Jamitzow in an open field in the windmill area.

history

Little is known about the history of the Jewish cemetery. In 1865 Berghaus reported that 7 out of 2594 inhabitants lived there in Lassan. It was built before 1880, as it was already recorded in the measuring table (MTB) of 1880. The cemetery was destroyed and cleared during or after the Nazi era. Since it was not fenced in and surrounded by arable land, it steadily lost its size from 1965 to 1980 due to bagging. Years of efforts at the city council to declare and secure the cemetery as a memorial were unsuccessful. Gravestones are no longer there. Around 1990 the cemetery was used as a pasture paddock. Today it is a small meadow with a small group of trees.

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 . (This source contains numerous inaccuracies and errors and is therefore only of limited scientific and historical suitability.)
  • “Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism”, Volume II, Bonn 2000
  • Martin Kaule: Baltic Sea Coast 1933–1945. Ch. Links 2011, ISBN 9783861536116 .
  • Lassan. In: Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ) (not evaluated).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=186734&lang=de
  2. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=186734&lang=de

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Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 31.3 "  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 27.5"  E