Former Jewish cemetery Halle - Gottesackerstraße

On June 21, 1692, the merchant Assur Marx (who lived from 1699 to 1730 in the building at Groäe Märkerstraße 14, which is still standing) was able to purchase a garden for the Jews living in Halle to create a cemetery. In the following years, foreign Jews who died at the Leipzig Trade Fair were also buried in this cemetery. In 1716, it was extended by the purchase of a neighboring plot of land. It was used until the new cemetery was built at the end of the 1860s. In 1937, the cemetery was destroyed by the National Socialists. In the same year, the Jewish community had to sell part of the cemetery grounds to the German Reich. Members of the Jewish community were able to salvage gravestones and move them to the Jewish cemetery in Dessauer Strasse. The area of the former cemetery was built over.