Jewish cemetery (Lauenstein)

The Jewish cemetery in the Lauenstein district of the Salzhemmendorf community in the Hameln-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony is a protected cultural monument .

The cemetery is located at Am Knickbrink near Wallstrasse . There are six tombstones on it . The oldest stone dates from 1857, the youngest from 1906.

history

The cemetery was laid out in 1787. The last funeral took place in 1900. In 1938 the cemetery was cleared. After the Second World War , the six remaining tombstones were put up again.

literature

• Bernhard Gelderblom : Salzhemmendorf. 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. 1336–1344 (Jewish cemetery Lauenstein: p. 1339, p. 1344).
• Documentation by Bernhard Gelderblom (1992/1997) and by Berndt Schaller (1997)

Web links

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