Cemetery

"The oldest Jewish cemetery was located on the Helenenberg and was officially opened in 1867, but was closed again in 1900, as it could no longer be expanded.
It was leveled during the National Socialist era.
Today there is only a memorial stone on the site.
The other remaining tombstones were partly put up again on the Ledderken cemetery." (Klaus Wupper, 1/2022)

To the old or first Jüdischen Begr bnisplatz in Bernburg is little überliefert. It lies at Kaiplatz next to the Kurhaus Bernburg on a green strip in front of a building used today (2022) as retirement home. Nothing points to this first Jewish cemetery. No gravestones have survived. - It was initially located outside the city walls and was used until 1826. In 1826 the new Jewish cemetery was inaugurated on the hill. At the end of the 19th century, the town of Bernburg planned to become a spa and health resort, which included a spa hotel (today a retirement home).

For the year 1758, a Jewish burial society - a Chewra Kaddischa -  is verifiable. The site of the cemetery was at the Kaiplatz. Because this was occupied, the cemetery preserved to this day was built on May 30. May 1826 on the Rö&April;eberg - a small hill between the Bernburg valley town and today's Waldau district - was inaugurated by Duke Alexius of Anhalt-Bernburg (1767-1834)  Duke Alexius is also referred to in the inscription above the archway: "Gottesacker/Erbauet unter der glorreichen Regierung Sr.

The Jewish community bought a piece of land on the South Wall in 1769 and built a cemetery there, called "Judentannen". Burials took place until 1938. The cemetery was destroyed in 1938, fragments stored until 1980 in the basement of the town hall. The whereabouts are uncertain.

The cemetery in Ahsen was opened in 1873. There were only 5 burials in total. The cemetery was completely destroyed in the period from 1933 to 1945. The current memorial column was erected after 1945.

The present Jüdische cemetery on the banks of the Berkel was established in the middle of the 19th century , after the first cemetery, which was located quite near the present cemetery, was abandoned.

Around 1870 the new cemetery was used at the present location. Exact details are missing. Jews from neighboring communities were also buried here.

The cemetery is located on the B 74 from Berne in the direction of Ranzenbüttel and Fähre Farge, shortly after the end of the village on the right side, directly behind the house Weserstr. 38.

The iron gate is unlocked. In the cemetery there are six (family) gravestones, three of them for members of the Koopmann family. On two of them a family member who was deported to Theresienstadt is commemorated, on one also a son who died in World War I.

The earliest date of death is 1895, the latest 1928.

Detailed information can be found here: https://www.alemannia-judaica.de/oedheim_friedhof.htm