Jewish cemetery (Stadtoldendorf)

Jewish cemetery in Stadtoldendorf

The Jewish cemetery Stadtoldendorf is a Jewish cemetery in the Lower Saxon town of Stadtoldendorf (integrated community Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf ) in the Holzminden district . It is a protected cultural monument .

There are 51 gravestones in the 959 m² cemetery on Deenser Straße .

history

The cemetery was rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century and occupied until 1936. The oldest gravestone is dated to 1846.

Immediately after the end of the Second World War , the cemetery was restored on behalf of the city. The costs were claimed from the three known grave robbers. In 1953 the cemetery was owned by the JTC and in 1960 by the state association . The site was temporarily maintained by the city or a nursery. It has been repaired several times.

literature

• Rüdiger Kröger: Stadtoldendorf. 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. 1424–1434 (Jüdischer Friedhof Stadtoldendorf: p. 1427, p. 1431).
• Documentation of the cemetery by the regional association / central archive is available from 1989/1990. It contains photos and the translations of all stones.
• Reinhard Bein: Eternal House. Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. doeringdruck, 2004, ISBN 3-925 268-24-3

Web links

• Stadtoldendorf. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• Joint municipality Stadtoldendorf. In: Topography of Memory in Southern Lower Saxony