Jewish cemetery (Wriezen)
The Wriezen Jewish Cemetery in the town of Wriezen in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg is located on Siedlungsweg near Freienwalder Strasse.
The land for the cemetery was acquired by the Jewish community of Wriezen in 1730. Before that, the Jewish cemetery in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) was used. The last occupancy took place in 1940. About 150 grave sites are visible, 131 gravestones have been preserved and were carefully renovated in the 1980s. The tombstones are laid out in rows on either side of a corridor. To the right of the corridor are the older graves, these are made of sandstone . The younger stones are made of granite . The inscriptions on the stones are bilingual, Hebrew on one side and German on the other.
The Jewish cemetery is one of the best preserved in Brandenburg. It is a monument .
literature
- Wolfgang Weißleder, Anne Wachsmuth, Jörg Kwapis (eds.): The good place. Jewish cemeteries in the state of Brandenburg. Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-9806603-0-3 .
- Brigitte Heidenhain: Jews in Wriezen. Her life in the city from 1677 to 1940 and her cemetery. Universitäts-Verlag, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-939469-39-1 .
- Ilona Rohowski, Ingetraud Senst: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in Brandenburg. Volume 9.1: District of Märkisch-Oderland. Part 1: towns of Bad Freienwalde and Wriezen, villages in Niederoderbruch. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein 2006, ISBN 3-88462-230-7 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 43 '34.9 " N , 14 ° 7' 37.8" E