Jewish cemetery (Pasewalk)

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Jewish cemetery Pasewalk 1880 - lower center - signature L without writing, initials pl.

The Pasewalk Jewish Cemetery in Pasewalk , Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , is a protected architectural monument .

description

The cemetery is located east of Löcknitzer Straße at the southeast end of the former old Christian cemetery, but separated from it. Today the old cemetery is cut through by the road from the B 109 to the city. It had been abandoned and designed as a park. The burial place is surrounded by a brick wall. Jewish cemeteries were designated as burial places on the official maps and were signed with an L instead of a †. There is only a clear signature with an L and no inscription in the table sheet from 1880. Most of the time, the squares were laid out far outside the cities, mainly in the barn districts or similar remote locations. Here in Pasewalk, the location between the Christian cemetery and the barracks is a rare place.

history

Jewish cemetery, entrance gate

The Jewish cemetery in Pasewalk was probably laid out east of Löcknitzer Strasse at the beginning of the 19th century. A cemetery hall was created on the property. The cemetery was occupied until 1938. In the following years the cemetery was completely destroyed and cleared, the cemetery hall burned down.

After 1933 around 40 Jews lived in Pasewalk. Her synagogue, built in 1859 in the city center, was destroyed in the November pogroms in 1938, as was the cemetery and Jewish shops. On November 8, 1988, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the pogrom, the city of Pasewalk had a table with a seven-armed candlestick and a Star of David set up on Marktstrasse with the inscription:

"On November 9, 1938, during the so-called Reichskristallnacht, the synagogue in Pasewalk was destroyed by fire 40 meters from here."

Today only a few grave slabs set into the wall to the left of the entrance gate created in 1988 are preserved. The Jewish state community of Mecklenburg had a large memorial stone erected opposite the entrance around 1950, which was partly financed by donations from Pasewalker Jews who had escaped abroad.

In Hebrew it says:

"In memory of the dead in this place, this stone in memory"

and in German:

"In memory of the Jewish cemetery"

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 .
  • “Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism”, Volume II, Bonn 2000
  • Martin Kaule: Baltic Sea Coast 1933–1945. Ch. Links 2011, ISBN 9783861536116 .
  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online version ) (not evaluated).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” at the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=228425&lang=de

Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 56.5 ″  N , 13 ° 59 ′ 12.9 ″  E