Jewish cemetery (Syke)

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Syke Jewish cemetery
Jewish cemetery Syke 2009 82.JPG
Data
place High street, Syke
Construction year around 1835
Floor space about 800 m²
Coordinates 52 ° 54 '13.9 "  N , 8 ° 49' 0.5"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 54 '13.9 "  N , 8 ° 49' 0.5"  E
Jewish cemetery Syke (Lower Saxony)
Syke Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Syke is a well-preserved Jewish cemetery in Syke ( Diepholz district , Lower Saxony ). It is a protected cultural monument .

description

The cemetery is located in Syke between Hohen Strasse and Lindhofhöhe in the middle of a newer residential area. The cemetery, surrounded by a hedge, has a size of approx. 800 m² and is located on a plateau above a slope. On it are 35 tombstones for deceased Jews and two tombstones for "seven unknown Russian prisoners of war" each. The 14 Soviet prisoners of war who lost their lives between 1941 and 1946 were buried in two collective graves.

The cemetery is run by the Lower Saxony State Association of Jewish Communities . The city of Syke is responsible for maintenance.

history

The cemetery was laid out around 1835. Before that, the deceased Syker Jews were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hoyerhagen (today: City of Hoya , district of Nienburg ), about 20 km away . The oldest gravestone is dated to the year 1836, the youngest to the year 1935. Jewish residents from Brinkum were also buried.

On 4th / 5th April 2002 the cemetery was desecrated: With brute force 11 tombstones were broken through, 3 overturned and one placed at an angle. The destruction and damage have now been repaired.

literature

  • Hermann Greve : Stumbling blocks ” To give memory a name. Information on the eighteen Syker “stumbling blocks”, published on June 11, 2006 and April 18, 2007 by Gunter Demnig . A documentation on the history of the Jewish community in Syke. (Ed .: Stadt Syke), Syke 2007, 72 p. M. numerous Fig.
  • Uwe Hager: Syke. 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 p.), Göttingen 2005, pages 1464-1470
  • Heinz-Hermann Böttcher: The Jewish cemetery in Syke - documentation. (Typescript printing), Syke ³2003, 120 pp.
  • Jewish Cemetery. In: Gaby Ullrich u. Hermann Greve: On the way ... in Syke. A culture and nature travel guide for Syke and its districts. Fischerhude 2002, page 24/25
  • Hermann Greve u. Günter Schmidt-Bollmann: The Jewish cemetery in Syke. Note: This is a text booklet (manuscript print) for a sound-slide series with the same title in the Syke district media center; Signature of the Ton-Dia series: KCTbR 99; Syke / Weyhe / Bremen 1995
  • Hermann Greve: Forgotten, suppressed, denied ... Stations of Jewish life in Syke, Brinkum, Leeste, Kirchweyhe. In: Harald Focke , Hermann Greve, Hilmar Kurth: When the synagogues burned. The Jewish pogrom of 9/10 November 1938 in Germany and in the Diepholz district. Its history and its consequences. Sulingen 1988, pages 27-96

Web links

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