Jewish cemetery (Wettensen)
The Jewish cemetery in Wettensen , a district of the town of Alfeld (Leine) in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony , is located in the north of the town on the edge of the forest. Today there are still two gravestones ( Mazevot ).
history
The Jewish cemetery was mainly used by the Alfeld Jewish community and was occupied until 1880. After 1880 the deceased of the Alfeld Jewish community were buried in the communal cemetery in Alfeld.
One of the two stones
Hebrew lettering
literature
- Betting. In: Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
- Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich / Antje C. Naujoks: Alfeld. 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. 108–114 (Jüdischer Friedhof Wettensen: pp. 111–113).
Web links
Commons : Jewish Cemetery - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Alfeld | Dumbbells | Duingen | Eime | Elze | Everode | Gronau (Leine) | Great Freden | Hildesheim | Little Freden | Lamspringe | Flours | Nordstemmen | Rössing | Sarstedt
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 24 ″ N , 9 ° 48 ′ 5 ″ E