Jewish cemetery Zehdenick

The cemetery is located north of the city center at the Friedrich-Engels-Stra;e (= B109 -> Templin), on the out of town right side of the street, just behind the Catholic church. Approximately againstüber the Einmündung of the Marienstra;e leads a short path directly to him.

In order to enter him canönnen one must however pick up the key. Against deposit of an identity card o.ä. one receives it with the tourist information in the city hall, Am market 11.

The cemetery was put on 1766 and umfa;te originally approx. 8 ar, more than the today eingezäunte area.

About 1850 lived in Zehdenick about 115 Jews, as a result of emigration löstete the community towards the end of the 19th century, the cemetery was closed in 1898, then only two burials took place here.

After 1933, the cemetery was verwüstet and then decayed even further. On the initiative of a teacher, the cemetery was restored from 1996 by students from Zehdenick,   where this was possible, the gravestones or what was left of them übrig, at their original locations rebuilt. Smaller fragments, whose assignment was not possible, were embedded in a memorial wall, others were laid out in front of it on the ground (in the form of the Hebrew letter Sin?).

The story of this action is described in Hansjürgen Werner, Eine SteinZeit Geschichte. The „Good Place“ of the children of Zehdenick, Blieskastel 2002.

In 1998, the ceremonial rededication took place. Afterwards he was not spared from Schändungen, 2001 were 13,  2007 again 5 tombstones overturned or beschädigt.