Jewish cemetery (Stolzenau)

View of the cemetery enclosed with a brick wall

The Jewish cemetery Stolzenau is a Jewish cemetery in Stolzenau ( Nienburg / Weser district , Lower Saxony ). It is a protected cultural monument .

description

The 1,720 m² cemetery already existed in the 1st half of the 18th century. Today there are 134 Jewish graves on it. There are around 150 tombstones for the Jewish deceased from Stolzenau and the surrounding area from the period from 1729 onwards. The cemetery is located on Schinnaer Landstrasse ( L 351 ) between Stolzenau and Schinna at the level of the gravel pond (corridor 4, parcel 10).

history

Gravestones in the cemetery

The oldest gravestone dates from 1729. The cemetery was restored in 1953 and 1970. Since 1960 it has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony .

literature

• Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich and Antje C. Naujoks: Stolzenau. 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. 1433-1440.

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stolzenau. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
• 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 pages), Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Community of Stolzenau, district of Nienburg / Weser, administrative district of Hanover; Explanatory report on the zoning plan, June 28, 2001, p. 61, Stolzenau district (PDF; 1.6 MB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 43.4 "  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 38.7"  E