Jewish cemetery castle
The Jewish cemetery was the cemetery of the Jewish community in the town of Burg in Saxony-Anhalt .
The cemetery is located on Neuenzinnen and Koloniestraße on a hill northeast of downtown Burger. The cemetery area covers 1760 m².
The complex is surrounded by a wall made of rubble stones . The first written mention of the cemetery as Judenberg comes from the year 1770. Today 46 tombstones are still preserved, the oldest of which was erected in 1838. The plastered mourning hall in the cemetery was built in 1911. The hall is simply designed in the style of reform architecture . It has round windows . The eastern end of the house is designed in the form of an apse . The portal of the hall is richly structured.
During the National Socialist era , the cemetery was not destroyed.
There is a memorial stone for Anne Frank in the cemetery .
literature
- Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Administrative region Magdeburg (= Dehio. Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. 1). Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 144.
- Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg (ed.): Guide through Jewish Saxony-Anhalt (= contributions to the history and culture of the Jews in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. Vol. 3). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1998, ISBN 3-930850-78-8 , p. 390.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 29.9 ″ N , 11 ° 51 ′ 56.3 ″ E