Jewish cemetery (Neustrelitz)

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Neustrelitz Jewish Cemetery (2015)

The Neustrelitz Jewish Cemetery in the town of Neustrelitz in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is designated as a cultural monument .

description

Jewish cemetery Neustrelitz 1880 - half right center - signature greeting pl.

The (newer) Neustrelitz cemetery is located at the Neustrelitz main station on Schwarzen Weg. The approximately 460 m² rectangular cemetery complex is bordered by a 3 m high brick wall. The entrance is a simple archway with a simple two-winged iron gate. There are no paths in the cemetery, the entire area is overgrown with grass and summer flowers. The trees are mainly made up of Norway maples , most of which are wild. 32 tombstones are still preserved in the cemetery, 17 of which were overturned and partly badly damaged. There are four rows of graves recognizable; There are no burial mounds.

Jewish cemeteries were designated as burial sites on the official maps and were signed with an L (symbolic of an upright gravestone) instead of a † . Mostly they were created further outside the cities or communities, mainly in the barn districts or similar remote locations. In Neustrelitz the cemetery is at the train station, but in the city.

history

There are said to have been two Jewish cemeteries in Neustrelitz. The presumably older cemetery is said to have been south of the village (description in 1988: "on the main road B 96, where the petrol station is today"). This cemetery was - probably during the Nazi era - destroyed and leveled. It is not recorded on the measuring table (MTB) from 1880 and 1920. The newer cemetery dates back to the 19th century. This cemetery was also devastated during the Nazi era. After the war, the stones were placed partly along the wall, partly in a semicircle. 24 of the 32 tombstones are well preserved. The property is surrounded by a high brick wall.

The Jewish cemetery, founded in 1811, is located north of the train station. The cemetery survived the Nazi era relatively unscathed. After the war, the cemetery was neglected for decades. It was not until the late 1960s that increased efforts were made to maintain and maintain the cemetery. Nevertheless, the cemetery was found in October 1972 by representatives of the Jewish state community in a neglected condition. All of the tombstones were in one corner of the cemetery, the site was neglected, and the cemetery wall was badly damaged. Most of the stones were put up again in November of the same year.

On November 9, 1989, the cemetery was desecrated by strangers, and 16 gravestones were smeared with Nazi symbols. With the 32 tombstones and fragments still preserved today, it is possible that most of them are no longer in their original location due to the work carried out in 1972 or that some stones are even missing. The entire area is in a bad, but well-kept condition.

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.)

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Neustrelitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b research project “Jewish cemeteries”. of the Fachhochschule Neubrandenburg , published in: KLEKs OnlineEditor

Coordinates: 53 ° 21 ′ 37.6 ″  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 26.3 ″  E