New Jewish cemetery Halberstadt Klein Quenstedter Chaussee (1895)

In the middle of the 19th century, the neo-orthodox direction established itself in Halberstadt - in contrast to the mostly reform-oriented Jewish communities in larger cities. The number of members grew, and thus various reconstruction and new building measures became necessary. This included the establishment of two new cemeteries: first "Am Berge" (1844), directly next to the oldest Jewish burial ground "Am Roten Strumpf" (1644), then in the north of Halberstadt, on the Klein Quenstedter Chaussee.

There, directly east of the newly established municipal cemetery from 1872, the third Jewish cemetery of Halberstadt could be consecrated on December 2, 1895. The elongated plot (approx. 1,360 square meters) runs from the street to the north and is surrounded by a wall. The entrance in the south decorates until today a wrought-iron gate with flowers and two David stars.

The layout followed the Orthodox tradition: a driveway first led to the mourning hall. It was built in 1895 by the Halberstadt master carpenter Krug as a square brick building with a dome in the neo-Romanesque style - in imitation of the neighboring cemetery chapel. A porch in the south led into the plastered interior. From it, the apse in the north was separated by a "ritual slit", i.e. a wide joint in the roof structure. Thus, the Kohanim of the community could also attend the mourning ceremonies from a separate building, as it were.

Accordingly, the entrance area to the south was not occupied, but leased to a nursery. Only to the north there are about 380 graves, grouped in five fields. About 300 stones have been preserved. They are aligned to the east, mostly very simply designed and bilingual (Hebrew / German) inscribed.

While the graves survived the November 1938 pogrom almost unscathed, the mourning hall was burned down and the ruins demolished a year later at the expense of the municipality. Individual burials probably still took place until 1942.