Wandsbek Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery Königszeile

The Jewish cemetery in Wandsbek , also known as the Jüdischer Friedhof Königszeile , is located on the Königszeile (formerly Lange Reihe ) and was the burial place of the Jewish community of Wandsbek from 1675 to 1874 .

history

The cemetery was set up in 1634 on a piece of land that the tenant of the Wandsbek estate, Colonel Bernd von Hagen, made available. The first burial took place in 1675, the last one in 1881. A total of about 1200 graves were dug. In 1886 the cemetery was closed and in the following year a new cemetery was set up in Jenfelder Strasse , where burials continued until 1942.

During the November pogrom in 1938, the morgue was broken into and tombstones damaged. The cemetery on Jenfelder Strasse was also desecrated.

Memorial stone for Rabbi Simon S. Bamberger

The cemetery on the Königszeile (corner of Litzowstraße) has been a listed building since 1960. It is locked but can be seen from the street. Around 500 tombstones are still preserved, the oldest dating from 1676. In front of the cemetery on the Königszeile there is a memorial stone for Simon S. Bamberger , who was rabbi of the Israelite community of Wandsbek from 1902 to 1938. The new cemetery in Jenfeld is now partly overbuilt and in a worse condition than the old one in the core area of ​​Wandsbeck.

See also

• Jewish cemeteries in Hamburg
• History of the Jews in Hamburg

literature

• Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer : The cemetery guide, walks to known and unknown graves in Hamburg and the surrounding area. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 .
• Michael Studemund-Halévy : In Jewish Hamburg. , Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2011 ISBN 3-937904-97-2

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Königszeile (Hamburg-Wandsbek)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 29.8 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 3"  E