Eugen Julius Alenfeld was born in Magdeburg in 1861. His parents were bank director Julius Jacob Alenfeld and Mathilda Emma Alenfel, née Beyfus. Eugen Alenfeld was married to Elsa Josephine Schlesinger-Trier, born on August 3, 1872 in Frankfurt a.M. The couple had three children - Karl Julius Erich, born on 8. November 1891 in Magdeburg, - Paul Robert Walter, born on April 27, 1893 in Magdeburg and Carla Laura Mathilde, married name Pohl. born on June 8, 1894 in Magdeburg. Eugen Alenfeld ran the banking house E. Alenfeld & Co.

1879 Foundation of the "Israelitischer Verein zur Befriedigung religiüser Bedürfnisse" for the planning and construction of the small wooden synagogue for around 50 people. It is located slightly above the nearby Protestant Salvator Church and the Catholic Church of St. Joseph. So many people came to the inauguration that the synagogue was too small. As a good neighbor, the opening was moved to the Catholic parish hall.

In 1925, the 50th anniversary of the Jewish community was celebrated, for which the synagogue had been specially prepared.

The Gärtner family lived in Barnstorf from 1910, most recently at Bahnhofstra<e 139, the house we are standing in front of. Before they moved in here, they lived with the Wesermann family for some time.

In Barnstorf, Max Gärtner was a respected cattle dealer, just like his father and his brother. He owned a plot of land with stables; he also had a lot of grazing land in the community. Max Gärtner preferred to trade in large livestock: he bought the cattle in the surrounding area and sold them in Osnabrück and Dortmund.

Max returns to his wife Maria after being wounded in the First World War. The Seligmanns lived in the half-timbered house with their five children. Vegetables were grown in the front garden. There was also room for fruit trees. The house also had a workshop. After the First World War, Max no longer worked as a butcher like his father, but as a trader in used goods, until the Nazi regime forbade this. Despite being arrested on 9.11.1938 and sent to Buchenwald, he returned in December 1938. They had to go into hiding in 1944.

The Jewish cemetery „Am Leipziger Tor“ was laid out in 1687, extended several times – and almost completely destroyed in the November pogrom of 1938. Burials have been taking place here again since 1995.

The Jewish burial ground is located within the municipal cemetery on Eberhardystra e