Jewish cemetery (Hebenshausen)

The Jewish cemetery of Hebenshausen is located two kilometers north of the village on a small hill at the edge of a small village. It can be reached by a tarred dirt road at the edge of the village or by a small access road of the B27 in direction Göttingen shortly before the exit Marzhausen. The cemetery was established at the beginning of the 18th century to provide the growing Jewish community with a local burial place. Previously, burials had taken place in the Jewish cemetery in Witzenhausen. The Jewish community in Hebenshausen also included the few Jews from the nearby village of Marzhausen. The cemetery comprises between 200 and 250 graves. Today there are about 76 gravestones from the period of 1736 to 1922, lying or standing upright irregularly distributed on the site. Since the number of Jewish parishioners decreased at the beginning of the 20th century (according to the Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen-1861: 104; 1905: 29; 1925: 6; 1932/33: 6), the cemetery was no longer in use from the beginning of the 1920s. The last Jewish village member Abraham Hesse (1867-1956) was buried in the church cemetery in the village center after his death in 1956.

Many of the gravestone inscriptions were written in Hebräish and show weather-related damage. To get access to the eingezäunten Friedhofsgelde is asked to pick up the key at the village administration Hebenshausen.
Für further information is referred, among other things, to the website of the state information system Hesse. On the website, in addition to information on other cemeteries (Marzhausen / Witzenhausen), there is also information on the äußeren characteristics of a grave (material, size ße, placement, description), to the inscription (Übbersetzung of the grave inscription), information about the deceased person (birthday, date of death, sex, place of origin, place of residence, profession and function) and general comments.

In addition, on the website alemannia-judaica.de, under the entry "Jüdischer Friedhof  Hebenshausen", further and detailed photographs of the cemetery from 2011 (at summer time), as well as a historical plan of the cemetery from a map from 1782 can be seen.