Jewish cemetery (Harpstedt)
The Harpstedt Jewish cemetery is a well-preserved Jewish cemetery in Harpstedt ( Oldenburg district , Lower Saxony ). It is a protected cultural monument .
description
The approximately 600 m² cemetery is located west of the center of Harpstedt, north of Wildeshauser Straße on the street “Zum Judenfriedhof”. In relation to the size of the cemetery, there are very few tombstones on it. There are a total of eleven very differently designed tombstones. In terms of their size and material, they partly bear witness to a certain prosperity of those who are buried there. Seven tombstones or their remains are intended for Jewish grave sites and four granite tombstones for individual graves from the time of the Second World War (or shortly afterwards) for people (" displaced " / " prisoner of war ")"/" Child "- so the inscription on the gravestones) from Eastern Europe ( Russia , Poland and Yugoslavia ).
There is also a memorial / information board near the entrance gate. It is a bronze plate that is screwed onto an uncut granite stone. It bears the names of nine former Jewish residents Harpstedts who were born from 1872 to 1934 and between 1942 and 1945 after Theresienstadt , Auschwitz , Minsk and Stutthof in Gdansk deported and perished there. The same bronze plate exists again on the grounds of the Harpstedter Samtgemeinde administration.
history
The Harpstedt Jews buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in the nearby town of Wildeshausen since 1711 . The oldest identifiable tombstone of a Harpstedt Jew there dates from 1800. In 1907 Iwan Goldschmidt acquired a cemetery property west of the Harpstedt area, on which seven burials took place between 1910 and 1937. After the Second World War, the Jewish cemetery was restored.
Desecrations and destruction
Desecrations took place at the Jewish cemetery in Harpstedt. In the relevant publications, a cemetery desecration is reported on November 11, 1994 (with the indication: “Perpetrator presumably NS”) (Diamant, p. 76; source: BdI of February 16, 1995). An inscription plaque is missing on a tombstone; all other tombstones are intact.
See also
literature
- Harpstedt. In: Johannes-Fritz Töllner: The Jewish cemeteries in the Oldenburger Land. Inventory of the preserved tombstones. (Oldenburger Studien 25), Oldenburg 1983, pp. 588-594 (history, photos and inscriptions); ISBN 3-87358-181-7
- Heinz-Hermann Böttcher: The Jewish cemetery in Harpstedt - documentation. (Self-published typescript printing), Syke 2003, 89 pp.
- Werner Meiners : Harpstedt. 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, pages 801–806 (with 2 illustrations)
Web links
- Harpstedt. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
- Jewish cemetery in Harpstedt near " Alemannia Judaica "
- therein: History of the Harpstedter Jewish Cemetery
Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 3.7 " N , 8 ° 33 ′ 41" E