New Jewish cemetery (Barsinghausen)

The New Jewish Cemetery Barsinghausen is located next to an allotment garden colony

The New Jewish Cemetery Barsinghausen is a Jewish cemetery in the Lower Saxony city of Barsinghausen in the Hanover region . It is a protected cultural monument .

There are 28 gravestones in the cemetery on Kirchdorfer Straße .

The cemetery was probably occupied from 1912 to 1944.

Old graveyard

The old Jewish cemetery was fenced in again in 2015

The previous cemetery ("old cemetery") in Deisterstraße was probably from 17./18. Century until 1910/1912 documented. This cemetery was desecrated in the mid-1930s. Gravestones were knocked over and smashed. Shortly before the end of the war , construction work began on the cemetery grounds, and the pits that were created can still be seen today. There is a tombstone in the cemetery; this was found again and erected as a memorial stone in 1982 .

literature

Miriam Lappin / Antje C. Naujoks: Barsinghausen. 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, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 164-171 (Jewish cemetery Barsinghausen: pp. Xx, p. Xx).
Documentation by Friedel Homeyer on behalf of the Hanover district (1982)
Friedel Homeyer: The Jewish cemetery in Barsinghausen. In: Yesterday and Today. Jews in the Hanover district. Hannover 1984, pp. 200-203 (Neuer Friedhof), pp. 204-207 (Alter Friedhof).

Web links

Barsinghausen (New Cemetery). In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany ; here: Lower Saxony
Churches and monasteries ; therein: 1 photo (old Jewish cemetery) and 7 photos (new Jewish cemetery)
Places of remembrance - The Jewish cemetery in Barsinghausen
Forced labor graves in the Barsinghausen area
former Jewish cemetery
Jewish cemeteries are important sources of history. Deister-Leine-Zeitung from January 29, 2010