Jewish cemetery (Schwanewede)

The Jewish cemetery Schwanewede is a Jewish cemetery in Schwanewede ( Osterholz district , Lower Saxony ), which is located in the Koppelsberg district on the Am Spreeken street.

There are 112 tombstones in the cemetery , the first from 1815. Burials were made until 1941. Among other things, Jews from Blumenthal , which has only belonged to Bremen since 1939 , were buried here . According to the historian Jürgen Bohmbach , the cemetery "presumably existed from 1774" and the last burial took place there in 1924.

In the 1990s, the Schwaneweder chronicler and long-time chairman of the Heimatverein Schwanewede e. V. , Horst Zientz, with the local Jewish cemetery and created a documentation of 100 graves. The retired Schwaneweder history teacher Herbert Scholz has been researching the burial site since the mid-2000s. According to Scholz's research, "116 people [...] are buried in 106 graves" in the cemetery.

The cemetery is now owned by the Hanover Jewish Regional Association , which had the burial site restored in 2011. Among other things, a new fence was drawn and a new gate was erected, which is decorated with several symbols: a Star of David , the menorah and twelve circles for the tribes of Israel .

literature

Horst Zientz: The Jewish cemetery and the Ries family. In: Horst Zientz (author); Heimatverein Schwanewede e. V. (Hrsg.): Schwanewede - a village in the Duchy of Bremen on the Geest. Heimatverein Schwanewede e. V., Schwanewede 1991.
Jürgen Bohmbach : Uthlede. 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. 1491-1493.

Web links

Schwanewede. 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 Schwanewede on friedhof-bremen.jimdo.com (with 12 photos)
Schwanewede (Osterholz-Scharmbeck district)

Individual evidence

^ Jürgen Bohmbach : Uthlede. 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. 1491-1493 (here: p. 1492).
↑ ^a ^b Gabriela Keller: Searching for traces in the Jewish cemetery. Die Norddeutsche , September 11, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2012 .

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[1] Jürgen Bohmbach : Uthlede. 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. 1491-1493 (here: p. 1492).

[weser-kurier-11-09-2012-2] Gabriela Keller: Searching for traces in the Jewish cemetery. Die Norddeutsche , September 11, 2012, accessed on September 11, 2012 .