Jewish cemetery Teichstraße - Hildesheim

Since the resettlement of Jews in Hildesheim around the year 1600, there has been an uninterrupted succession of Jewish cemeteries in the city. The cemetery at the Teichstrasse, which is still preserved in parts today, dates from this time. It was extended several times, always in the direction of the stone pit, and at least partially, like Christian cemeteries, it was used as a pasture. A circumstance about which the community repeatedly complained to the council, since such a misappropriation and disturbance of the resting place of the dead was considered unlawful according to Jewish religious law. The cemetery at the Steingrube seems to have been overfilled at the beginning of the 19th century, so that the burials were now made on a new part, presumably south of the Steingrube. By the 1880s at the latest, however, its existence was called into question: on the one hand, because residents of the surrounding streets petitioned the Landdrostei, pointing out, among other things, that the cemetery was hampering construction activity in the district and was a source of danger for diseases.On the other hand, however, it was also because at about the same time the magistrate decided to close the inner-city cemeteries and to build a central cemetery outside the city. The latter was probably also the decisive reason for the closure of the Jewish cemetery on Teichstra;e.

from: Jörg Schneider, Die jüdische Gemeinde in Hildesheim von 1871 – 1942, Diss. Universität Göttingen 1998