Jewish cemetery Winsen (Luhe)

Winsen Luhe Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Winsen (Luhe) is a Jewish cemetery in Winsen (Luhe) ( Harburg district , Lower Saxony ). It is a protected cultural monument .

description

On the 713 m² cemetery on Eckermannstraße (near the central bus station, opposite the turn off Mozartstraße) there are gravestones for Jews from Winsen (Luhe) and the surrounding area who died between 1748 and 1956. 43 graves have been preserved, 46 tombstones are available. Identifiable family names are Behrens, Bernstein, Heinemann (from Bleckede), Horwitz, Salomon, Steinwehr (from Obermarschacht), Stern, Strauss and Waldbaum.

history

The cemetery existed in 1742; In 1748 the oldest tombstone still in existence today was set. The cemetery was enlarged in 1826 and 1907. The last burial took place in 1956 : Sara Horwitz, who died at the age of 87, was buried there. The site was repaired in 1953 and 1965. In 1965 a memorial stone was erected in memory of the members of the Jewish community . Today the community of Winsen and individual families take care of the care of the cemetery, which has been owned by the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony since 1960 .

literature

• Karl-Heinz Ahrens, Annika Hillmann, Lino Klevesath, Sibylle Obenaus: Integrated into the bundle of life. Documentation of the Jewish cemetery and history of the Jewish community in Winsen an der Luhe. Winsen 2011, Incorrect ISBN * 978-3-9809115-5-1
• Marlis Buchholz, Almuth Lessing: Winsen ad Luhe. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volumes 1 and 2. Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 1561-1567.
• In 2003, Harald Storz a documentation created through the cemetery by the Hebrew inscriptions of the grave stones written and translated has.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Winsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Winsen ad Luhe. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. here: Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Falk-Reimar singer: The Jewish cemeteries in the administrative district of Lüneburg. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony. 18 (1998), No. 4, p. 166.
2. ↑ Obenaus, Historisches Handbuch ..., 2005, pp. 1562–1566.
3. ↑ Storz. In: Description of the documentation projects - Lower Saxony

Coordinates: 53 ° 21 ′ 46.85 "  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 42.16"  E