Jewish cemetery (Sachsenhagen)

The Jewish cemetery Sachsenhagen is a Jewish cemetery in the Lower Saxon town of Sachsenhagen in the Schaumburg district . There are 62 graves and 50 tombstones in the 1,228 m² cemetery at Dühlholzkamp .

history

The cemetery was first mentioned in 1835. The last funeral took place there in 1932. From 1952 the cemetery was owned by the Jewish Trust Corporation , and in 1960 it was taken over by the Lower Saxony State Association of Jewish Communities . The community of Sachsenhagen has been maintaining the site since 1987.

literature

• Karl Heinz Schneider: Sachsenhagen. 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. 1328–1331 (Jewish cemetery Sachsenhagen: pp. 1330 f.)
• Documentation by the regional association / central archive (1989/1990)

Web links

• Sachsenhagen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony ; Status: January 2002
• Jewish cemetery in Sachsenhagen
• Jewish cemetery in Sachsenhagen (with photo and location map)
• Jewish cemetery Sachsenhagen (photo)
• On the trail of Gerda's ancestors. Sachsenhagen: Fourth graders visit the Jewish cemetery with the Schewe couple. Schaumburger Nachrichten of March 17, 2010

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 23 "  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 18.4"  E