Jewish cemetery (Penzlin)

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The Penzlin Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the town of Penzlin in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is registered as a cultural monument .

description

The 700 m² cemetery is located on the south-western outskirts of “Am Ziegelkamp” in an allotment garden approx. 500 m from the B 192. About 55 tombstones have been preserved on it, arranged in eight rows of graves. Jewish cemeteries were designated as burial places on the official maps and were signed with an L instead of a †. Mostly they were created further outside the cities or communities, mainly in the barn districts or similar remote locations. In Penzlin, the cemetery is also in the Scheunenviertel.

history

The cemetery was probably laid out in the middle of the 18th century, because Jews have been able to settle in the city since 1746. The last burial took place in 1923. It is a square complex, it is slightly elevated on a small hill. The entrance is formed by a simple two-leaf metal gate that is locked. The cemetery is enclosed by a 1.50 m high chain link fence, only on the entrance side this is replaced by an equally high metal mesh fence. The entire complex is surrounded by a newly planted hedge made from Crataegus . From the entrance a 2.20 m wide cul-de-sac made of gray concrete slabs leads to the cemetery. The entire area is laid out as a lawn. The trees are made up of weeping ash and robinia.

In the course of its 250-year history and 170 years of use, it is estimated that there are over 100 burials. Today 55 tombstones from the 19th and 20th centuries are still preserved, the inscriptions on the tombstones are in Hebrew and on the back in German or only in Hebrew. A total of eight rows of graves can be seen in the cemetery. The last burial took place in 1923. The cemetery was not desecrated during the Nazi era. After the war ended, private individuals kept the cemetery in order. Today the city of Penzlin maintains the cemetery on behalf of the Jewish community of Rostock . The entire facility is in a very good and 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.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=148503&lang=de
2. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=148503&lang=de

Web links

• Literature on the Jewish cemetery (Penzlin) in the state bibliography MV
• Penzlin (MÜR) at Alemannia Judaica
• Penzlin Jewish Cemetery ( Memento from March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 3.8 "  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 58.7"  E