Jewish cemetery (Stavenhagen)

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The Stavenhagen Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the town of Stavenhagen in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

description

The cemetery was one kilometer northeast of the city in the town wood near the Waldbad on a small hill, equidistant from the train station.

Jewish cemeteries were designated as burial places on the official maps and were signed with an L instead of a †. Mostly they were created further outside the cities or communities, mainly in the barn districts or similar remote locations. In Stavenhagen the cemetery was in a wood on the Os train on the railway line far from the city.

history

The Jewish cemetery in Stavenhagen was laid out in 1764 and was in very good condition until 1938. During the November pogrom of 1938 it was devastated, the cemetery hall and the hearse burned. Nevertheless, it was repaired again by the last Jewish residents living in Stavenhagen. In 1943 the city declared the cemetery its property, leveled the area and reforested it.

A sports home stood there for a few years. In 1992 the city cleared the site, but is not sure about the future of the square. A memorial plaque provides information about the square and its history.

On Malchiner Strasse there is still a demolished half-timbered house that has been the community's synagogue since 1880. It too was desecrated and set on fire in the night of the pogrom in 1938. Later it served as a joinery. There is no reference to the past of the house, nor is there any other commemorative symbol for the expelled and murdered Jews from Stavenhagen.

literature

  • Michael Brocke, Eckehard Ruthenberg, Kai Uwe Schulenburg: Stone and Name. The Jewish cemeteries in East Germany (New Federal States / GDR and Berlin). Institute Church and Judaism Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-923095-19-8 . (This source contains numerous inaccuracies and errors and is therefore only of limited scientific and historical suitability.)
  • “Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism”, Volume II, Bonn 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=195859&lang=de
  2. ↑ Text: Research project “Jewish cemeteries” at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, published in: https://www.kleks-online.de/editor/?element_id=195859&lang=de

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Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 0.8 ″  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 22.3 ″  E