Jewish cemetery on the Strangriede

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Jewish cemetery on the Strangriede

The Jewish cemetery An der Strangriede in Hanover is the second of three Jewish cemeteries in the capital of Lower Saxony. It was opened in 1864 after the Old Jewish Cemetery on Oberstrasse was closed. Until 1924 it was the main cemetery of the Hanover Jewish Community. With the brick building of the preaching hall and around 2,600 preserved gravestones , the cemetery is an important historical place for the history of Hanover's Jews .

The site of the entire site, which is also protected as a garden monument, is the street An der Strangriede 55a in the northern part of Hanover.

history

The Holocaust survivors Henry Korman (left) and Salomon Finkelstein with the curator Corinna Luedtge in the exhibition Time to Remember 2015 in the preaching hall of the cemetery

The An der Strangriede cemetery was laid out in the years 1861–64 , parallel to the construction of the New Synagogue in Bergstrasse (today known as the Rote Reihe). Its entrance architecture , the preaching hall and the outbuildings were built by Edwin Oppler in 1863/64 . After the old cemetery on Oberstrasse, which was used from the 16th century to 1864, the An der Strangriede cemetery, opened in 1864, was the burial place of the Jewish community from 1864 to 1924. In 1924, as the cemetery with around 3,500 graves was occupied in six large grave fields, the Jewish cemetery Bothfeld was opened.

At the An der Strangriede cemetery, over 2,600 graves from the time of the strongest growth of the Jewish population, the age of their social emancipation in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, have been preserved.

The cemetery, which was used for six decades, is a document for the development of Hanoverian Jewry in its growth and advancement phase. The striving of the Jewish citizens for social integration and recognition led to the abolition of traditional Jewish burial rules: inscriptions appeared in German, hereditary burials were permitted, and gravestones were increasingly individually and magnificently designed.

Preaching Hall

Sermon hall exterior view
Sermon hall inside

The preaching hall by Edwin Oppler , a brick building with arched windows, is the only preserved sacred building by this important 19th century architect. He also designed the synagogues in Hanover and Breslau, both of which were destroyed on November 9, 1938. In 1921 the Jewish War Memorial 1914-18 was built on the east side of the preaching hall. There the names of 124 war dead are recorded on large panels, including Fritz Kraft (1894–1917), the brother of the writer Werner Kraft . The war memorial site bears the inscription: "In honor of their sons who died in the World War - the Hanover synagogue community" .

From 1941 the preaching hall served as one of the “ Jewish houses ” in which more than 100 Hanoverian Jews were detained. They were then deported to extermination camps. Further Jewish houses for the Jews from Hanover were built in Ahlem in 1944 .

Instead of a gravestone, the children of the Holocaust victims Max and Margarete Rüdenberg put this memorial stone on the chapel in the cemetery

In the preaching hall there is an exhibition about the history of the Hanoverian Jews, which is set up and supervised by the historian Peter Schulze . It can be visited (like the cemetery and sermon hall) on the Open Monument Day in September.

Tombs (selection)

  • Jewish cemetery on the Strangriede

  • Magnificent tomb

  • Gravestone of the first burial site

Panoramas

Western ...
... and the southern part of the cemetery

See also

literature

in alphabetical order

  • Joachim Bauer: The Jewish cemetery "An der Strangriede" in Hanover . In: Die Gartenkunst 3 (1/1991), pp. 111–117.
  • Selig Gronemann : Genealogical studies on the old Jewish families of Hanover , Hanover, 1913.
  • Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : At Strangriede 55a . In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 87.
  • Heike Leuckfeld: The tomb of Bertha Königswarter in the Jewish cemetery "An der Strangriede" in Hanover. Monitoring within the framework of a sponsorship agreement . In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 31 (2011), pp. 229–230.
  • Peter Schulze: Contributions to the history of the Jews in Hanover (= Hannoversche Studies. Vol. 6). Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4956-7 (back cover flap: cemetery plan).
    • In it: Tour of the cemetery on the Strangriede, pp. 205–208.
  • Peter Schulze : Jews in Hanover. Contributions to the history and culture of a minority. Texts and pictures from the exhibitions "Jews in Hanover" and "Historical Torah curtains from Hanover's former synagogues" in the Alte Predigthalle (= cultural information . No. 19). With an article on the history of the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede. Hanover 1989 (back flap: cemetery plan).
    • In it: Beth Hachajim - House of Life. The Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede in Hanover , pp. 102–130.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof An der Strangriede  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Weiß: Die Gartengemeinden der Nordstadt In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 2, Volume 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 100, as well as location map 2 Nordstadt Hainholz Vahrenwald p. 34f .; as well as Nordstadt in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover. P. 6f.
  2. ↑ Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (eds.), Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : An der Strangriede 55a In: Hannover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. 4th, updated and expanded edition. zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 82.

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '24 "  N , 9 ° 43' 11"  E