Haldensleben Jewish cemetery

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Jewish cemetery in Haldensleben

The Jewish cemetery Haldensleben was the cemetery of the Jewish community in the city of Haldensleben in Saxony-Anhalt .

The cemetery was created in 1811 north of the town of Haldensleben not far from the Trendelberg , at the end of today's Berggasse . It is 1280 m² in size and today contains 52 tombstones, according to other information about 48 tombstones and a memorial plaque erected in 1988. The stones that have been preserved are mostly bilingual.

As a cemetery, the facility was up to the seizure of power by the Nazis opened the 1,933th At that time, however, there was no longer a separate Jewish community in Haldensleben. The cemetery was devastated several times. The cemetery enclosure was used as building material during the GDR era and was later replaced by a hunter fence . Today the cemetery is enclosed by a brick wall. A double-winged modern gate in the form of the tablets of the law and with an incorporated Star of David forms the entrance to the cemetery area.

literature

  • Mathias Köhler: Altkreis Haldensleben (= Monument Register Saxony-Anhalt. Vol. 10: Ohrekreis. 1). Imhof, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-011-9 , p. 111.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Haldensleben)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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. 3). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1998, ISBN 3-930850-78-8 , p. 392.
  2. ^ Koehler: Altkreis Haldensleben. 2005, p. 111.

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 3.8 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 4 ″  E