Jewish cemetery (Uelzen)

Cemetery (partial view)

The Uelzen Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Uelzen in the Uelzen district in Lower Saxony . It is a protected cultural monument .

In the cemetery on Niendorfer Straße there are 37 tombstones for Jews from Uelzen and the surrounding area who died between 1850 and 1940.

history

In 1850 the area of ​​the cemetery at the southern end of Niendorfer Straße was privately acquired by Levy Louis Benjamin and given to the community. The cemetery was expanded to 1,086 m² in 1925 through purchase. In 1960 it was transferred to the regional association of Jewish communities in Lower Saxony . The municipal horticultural department is responsible for maintaining the site and the 37 tombstones.

literature

• Stephan Heinemann : Jewish life in the north-east Lower Saxony small towns of Walsrode and Uelzen. Walsrode 2001 (series of publications by the Association of Friends of the Heidemuseum Walsrode eV); ISBN 3-9803242-6-5
• Ralf Busch : Uelzen 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, pp. 1486-1491; ISBN 3-89244-753-5

In addition, there is documentation that Linde Weiland produced between 1980 and 1982 on behalf of the City of Uelzen. This documentation contains the photos, transcripts and translations of all stones. In addition, documentation (photos, translations of all stones) was carried out by the regional association / the central archive in 1989/1990.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Uelzen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Uelzen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany; here: Lower Saxony

Coordinates: 52 ° 57 ′ 30.6 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 52.3 ″  E