Bothfeld Jewish cemetery

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Entrance to the cemetery with the new mourning hall
The field with more than 300 urns of Jewish concentration camp victims from Hanover
The memorial erected in 1960 to commemorate the victims of the persecution of the Jews in Hanover
Gravestones for David and the Holocaust survivor Horst Egon Berkowitz

The Jewish cemetery Bothfeld is a Jewish cemetery in Hanover-Bothfeld at Burgwedeler Strasse 90. The chapel and tombs are now listed .

history

The Jewish cemetery in Bothfeld was initially planned as a park cemetery , but for economic reasons it was initially only set up as a temporary facility on a small area in 1924 . The first burial took place on November 11 of the same year with the funeral of Ida Stern.

Five years later, a mourning hall was built according to a design by Werner Koech in 1929 , a domed building with side rooms for the wake and for the administration of the cemetery.

On November 10, 1938, the year of the Reichspogromnacht , the cemetery was desecrated , the mourning hall destroyed by arson and later completely demolished. In 1941 the areas not yet covered with graves were given to the city of Hanover. By 1942 a total of 860 burials had been carried out.

After the Second World War , more than 300 urns were buried with the ashes of Jewish concentration camp inmates in 1945 .

In 1959, the then post-war community acquired the cemetery and had a new mourning hall built on the street front by 1960 based on a design by Hermann Zvi Guttmann . At the same time, the memorial was erected in memory of the victims of the persecution of the Jews in Hanover. It bears the inscription: “The tears run down unquenched for the slain of our people - Jeremiah 8, verse 23. In memory of the more than 4000 members of our congregation who lost their lives in 1933–1945. (14 Sept. 1960). ”The“ parabolic arch shape of the hall ”was taken up in the arcade openings as well as in the shape of the memorial.

The chairman of the Jewish community, Norbert Prager , inaugurated the new cemetery hall.

Important graves

By the end of 2008, more than 1,000 burials had been made in row or family graves, including

See also

literature

  • Festschrift for the unveiling of the memorial and the inauguration of the cemetery hall at the Jewish cemetery in Hanover-Bothfeld , 1960
  • Peter Schulze : Bothfeld cemetery. In: Jewish cemeteries. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 328f.

Web links

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

Memory and future in the Hanover region, Bothfeld Jewish cemetery

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Schulze: Bothfeld cemetery (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Gerd Weiß: Bothfeld. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 2 , Vol. 10.2, Friedr, Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 71ff., Here: p. 73 ; as well as annex list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 16
  3. ↑ Remembrance and Future, Bothfeld Jewish Cemetery, last accessed on May 30, 2014
  4. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : PRAGUE, Norbert. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 289f.
  5. ↑ Peter Schulze: Blanck, Julius. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 69
  6. ↑ Peter Schulze : BERKOWITZ, (2) Horst Egon. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 52f .; online through google books
  7. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons
  8. ↑ Peter Schulze: Search for traces. Expropriated books as historical sources , in Thomas Elsmann (Ed.): In the footsteps of the owners. Acquisition and return of books by Jewish owners using the example of Bremen (= writings of the State and University Library Bremen , Volume 5), Bremen: State and University Library, 2004, pp. 69–95, v. a. Pp. 77-79 et al .; limited preview in Google Book search

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 54.5 ″  E