Jewish cemetery (Wagenfeld)

Jewish cemetery in Wagenfeld

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

The cemetery is located in a wood on "Barver Straße" about three kilometers north of the center of Wagenfeld. The oldest of the 27 preserved tombstones dates from 1811, the youngest from 1927. The cemetery was badly damaged during the National Socialist era . That is why the cemetery looks uneven today.

In 1982 the cemetery was desecrated .

literature

• Almuth Lessing: Wagenfeld. 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. 1524-1527.
• Timo Friedhoff: Wagenfeld fragments. The history of Wagenfeld's Jewish community from the 18th to the 20th century. Geest-Verlag, Vechta-Langförden 2008, ISBN 978-3-86685-138-2 .

Web links

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

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 39 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 2 ″  E