Jewish cemetery on Deichbruchstrasse

Mourning hall

The Jewish cemetery Deichbruch street is a Jewish cemetery in Bremen district of Hemelingen in the district Hastedt in the dike breach road. There are about 900 tombstones on it .

history

This cemetery is occupied from 1796 until today. It has been the official Jewish cemetery in Bremen since 1803.

During the November pogroms 1938 on the night of November 9th to 10th, the Jewish cemetery was devastated; many graves were desecrated. The first destruction was cleared immediately after the end of the war. In 1952 the mourning hall was rebuilt and inaugurated; a memorial for the victims of the Jewish community was unveiled. The cemetery has been a listed building since 1978 .

On August 3, 2010, the cemetery was desecrated by unknown perpetrators. 12 tombstones were knocked over. Jens Böhrnsen, Mayor of Bremen at the time, said: "I am always shocked that there are idiots who have learned nothing and who want to provoke with such deeds."

There has been a second Jewish cemetery in Bremen since 2008: The Riensberg Jewish cemetery is located directly next to the Riensberg cemetery in the Schwachhausen district of Bremen .

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Panorama of the cemetery, taken from the direction of the entrance

literature

Jeanette Jakubowski: History of the Jewish cemetery in Bremen . Bremen 2002.
Anne E. Dünzelmann , Dieter Fricke and Hartmut Müller : Bremen 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, pp. 308–343 (with 5 illustrations), ISBN 3-89244-753-5 .