Jewish cemetery Neuer Steinweg
The Jewish cemetery Neuer Steinweg is a former Jewish burial ground in the Hamburg district of Neustadt . It was destroyed in World War II and evacuated in 1954.
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Hamburg had been under French occupation since 1806 and was besieged from December 1813 to May 1814 by troops of the anti- Napoleonic coalition. Due to the closing of the gates, access to the cemeteries outside the city was blocked. The Jewish community therefore had to bury their dead on the property behind the Neuer Steinweg synagogue with the permission of the mayor . From January to May 1814 it was used for 57 burials . Originally an exhumation and reburial of the dead was probably planned, but this did not happen later.
In 1859 the synagogue was replaced by the new Kohlhöfen synagogue and the property was sold. The cemetery was separated as a separate property and remained in the possession of the community. In 1934 there were still 18 tombstones . The site was destroyed by bombs during World War II. In 1954 the dead were reburied in the Ohlsdorf Jewish cemetery and buried there together. A memorial plaque and the gate with the Star of David , which originally formed the entrance to the cemetery, commemorates them .
See also
literature
- Irmgard Stein: Jewish monuments in Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1984, pp. 59-60, ISBN 3-7672-0839-3
- Moses M. Haarbleicher: Two Epochs from the History of the German-Israelite Congregation in Hamburg. Meissner, Hamburg 1867, pp. 34–35
- Michael Studemund-Halévy: "In the Jewish Hamburg.", Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2011
Web links
- The Jewish cemeteries in Hamburg . From Albrecht Schreiber
- home IGDJ Institute for the History of German Jews
- Jewish Hamburg
- Altona Jewish cemetery
Altona | At the Grindel | Bahrenfeld | Bergedorf | Harburg | Jenfelder Strasse | Langenfelde | Kohlhöfen | New stone path | Ohlsdorf | Ottensen | Wandsbek
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 39.6 ″ E