Jewish cemetery at Grindel (Hamburg)

The Jewish cemetery at Grindel is named after its Hamburg neighborhood Grindel, which is located in the district of Rotherbaum. The cemetery was  laid out as early as 1712 on the outskirts of the city and initially served as a burial place for the poor and servants. It was not until 1835 that the cemetery became the main cemetery of the High German Jewish Community and the Portuguese Community in Hamburg, located in the Grindelviertel.  Only a few years later in 1909 the last burial took place and due to full occupancy the cemetery was closed. After that, the community buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Ohlsdorf. During the Nazi period, the cemetery at Grindel was desecrated several times, and in 1937 it was cancelled under government pressure and ultimately cleared and built over. The bones of the dead in the cemetery were exhumed and moved to the cemetery in Ohlsdorf. A memorial stele erected in 1986 with a bronze inscription plaque tells the story of the cemetery and commemorates its location.