Jewish cemetery (Salzhemmendorf)

The Jewish cemetery in the hamlet of Salzhemmendorf in Lower Saxony in the Hameln-Pyrmont district is a cultural monument .

There are seventeen tombstones in the 632 square meter reconstructed cemetery on Limberger Weg .

history

The cemetery was occupied from 1816 to 1932. It was destroyed on November 9, 1938, but some of the tombstones were preserved. The cemetery, restored in 1945, was desecrated in 1955. Then the tombstones were cast in concrete . Repairs were carried out in 1962 and 1997. The oldest existing gravestone dates from 1902, the youngest from 1930.

literature

• Bernhard Gelderblom : Salzhemmendorf. 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. 1336–1344 (Jewish cemetery Salzhemmendorf: pp. 1343 f.)
• Documentation by Bernhard Gelderblom (1997) and Berndt Schaller (1997).

Web links

• Salzhemmendorf. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• Bernhard Gelderblom: The Jewish cemetery in Salzhemmendorf