Jewish cemetery (Sögel)

The Jewish cemetery Sögel is a Jewish cemetery in Sögel in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . It is a protected cultural monument .

There are 67 tombstones in the “Am Loruper Weg” cemetery . The oldest is from 1835, the youngest from 1986.

history

For the year 1858 an area of ​​2120 m² is given for the cemetery. He was desecrated during the Nazi era . Presumably it was also devastated during the November pogroms in 1938 and tombstones were destroyed. In 1947 the cemetery was desecrated again. For 1952 an area of ​​3084 m² is given. It was repaired between 1952 and 1954. It has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony since 1959 , and the Sögel community has been responsible for cemetery maintenance since 1999.

literature

• Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich and Antje C. Naujoks: Sögel. 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. 1387-1397.
• Jewish cemeteries in Emsland. Edited by the district of Emsland. Meppen 1991, pp. 18-23.

Web links

• Sögel. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• Jewish cemetery in Sögel
• The de Levies in the Jewish cemetery in Sögel
• therein: Sögel Jewish cemetery

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 , p. 1390, p. 1394, p. 1396

Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '12.5 "  N , 7 ° 31' 55.1"  E