The Jewish cemetery in Rathenow

A Jewish cemetery can be traced in Rathenow since 1699. This old cemetery had to make way for a city expansion in 1905 and was abandoned. Outside the city, near the former village of Neufriedrichsdorf, a new cemetery was established, which was destroyed in 1941, the perpetrators were children, members of the Jungvolk. After the war, the cemetery – or what was left of it – fell into oblivion, which was used as a Müllplatz. In the 1970s there was aufgeräumt, the 13 gravestones found thereby were set up in 1993 before the rear cemetery wall.

On the B 188 from nordöstlicher direction (Nauen) coming one turns shortly before the place name sign left into the Neufriedrichsdorfer Straße. On the left side is the cemetery, the entrance is not locked.