Jewish cemetery (Nienburg / Weser)

Grave field at the Jewish cemetery in Nienburg / Weser

The Jewish cemetery Nienburg / Weser in Nienburg / Weser ( Nienburg / Weser district , Lower Saxony ) is a cultural monument due to the Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act .

description

In the cemetery in Bruchstrasse there are over 200 tombstones on a long hill for the Jewish deceased from Nienburg and the surrounding area from the period 1694 to 1950. In 1887 a cemetery building was built for funeral services and possibly for ritual washing of corpses. The building has been destroyed except for two preserved walls.

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  Entrance gate

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  Tombstones

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  Rows of graves

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  Memorial area in the destroyed cemetery building

literature

• Wilfried Wiedemann: Individual and collective memory. On the history of the Jewish cemetery in a small German town after 1945. In: Die Gartenkunst  24 (1/2012), pp. 97–102.
• Rainer Sabelleck : Nienburg. 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. 1105-1121.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Nienburg / Weser)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nienburg . In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• 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. 1120 f. Google Books
• wir-wauten-nichts-davon.de therein: Nienburg Jewish Cemetery

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 33 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 37.8"  E