Jewish cemetery (Lauenau)

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The Jewish cemetery
The cemetery, looking west

The Lauenau Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Lauenau area in the Rodenberg municipality in the Schaumburg district of Lower Saxony . There are 43 tombstones in the 655 m² cemetery on the Karl-Parisius-Weg footpath (about 150 m northeast of the castle ) .

history

Since the 18th century, Jews from Lauenau have buried their deceased on a property outside Lauenau in the Kleine Schweinemasch . In 1850 the property was enlarged from 3 to 30 square rods by purchasing it. But it was still pastureland . Since 1865 the Jews from Eimbeckhausen buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Lauenau. According to the order of the district president from October 1938, the deceased Jews from Pohle and Messenkamp were also to be buried in the Lauenau cemetery. In 1938, Emma Levy was the last to be buried in the cemetery. In June 1947 the cemetery was desecrated. In the 1950s it was in a devastated state. The cemetery site had been owned by the Jewish Trust Corporation since 1953, and has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony since 1960 . In June 1954, the doctor Max Arensberg from Lauenau, who was able to emigrate to the USA, visited his parents' graves. On this occasion, he made money available for the construction of a gate for the cemetery. In 1957/58 the cemetery was repaired. It has been cared for on a voluntary basis by the Lauenau Athletics Club since 1979. In 1981, 1982 and 1991 it was desecrated several times: gravestones were knocked over and the fence, which was renewed in 1981, was damaged.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '32.7 "  N , 9 ° 21' 54"  E