Cemetery

The first Jüdische cemetery in the city of Emmerich was established in 1629 in the west of the city on the Rhine between the city wall and the moat. This cemetery was used for almost 200 years.

In 1825, the city forced the Jüdische community to abandon the cemetery because the area was needed to expand the harbor. The bones were exhumed in 1825 and moved together with the associated gravestones to the new cemetery on Wassenbergstrasse.

The exact location of the old cemetery can only be approximated. Probably it was located under the present customs office.

http://www.stadteldagsen.de/akse_rund.html1753 Eldags Jews bought this land, which had been allocated to them by the city, to establish a cemetery. The community later included up to 50 people.  The cemetery was closed in 1938 by the Nazis, the memorial stones obstructed or removed, the site leveled and partially sold. In 1953, with the four remaining gravestones, this memorial was erected to commemorate the injustice of National Socialism and to remember the Jewish fellow citizens

The new Jewish cemetery was inaugurated in 1877.

You leave the city in a northerly direction ütte via Magdeburger Stra;e (old B 180, signpost to „Oberhütte“). On the outskirts of the town you pass the general cemetery on the left, in the northern corner of which is the new Jewish cemetery, established in 1877. Immediately after the cemetery on the left is the entrance to the allotment garden colony „Bergmannsruh“. From there a locked gate leads to the Jewish cemetery.

The old Jewish cemetery of Eisleben was used from the beginning of the 19th century until 1877. The cemetery was destroyed and abused. It was not until 2008 that an attempt was made to restore the cemetery.

In 2014, the class 9 with the assistance of Mr. Rüdiger Seideldes Martin Luther Gymnasium meticulously documented the Jewish cemetery of Eisleben with scientific standards. A document worth reading!

The Jewish cemetery of Elsdorf is located at the large sugar factory. The cemetery was acquired in 1847. The oldest stone dates from 1791, the site was already used as a cemetery before the acquisition. Today there are about 80 graves. Graves were moved here, which had to give way to the open pit coal mining. A stone commemorates Russian forced laborers who were killed by bombs. A surviving Jew had a memorial stone erected.

If the open-cast lignite mine in Hambacher Forst is expanded as planned, this cemetery will soon no longer exist.

In 1840, the Buchholz merchant Aron Sussmann acquired the site. The oldest gravestone (of Berta Sussman) is from 1846, the youngest from 1917.

Jewish people from the surrounding villages Neu-Lübbenau, Rietz-Neuendorf, Krausnick and Pretschen were also buried in Buchholz. The cemetery preserved today is with 7.2 ares apparently smaller than the original cemetery, which was partly destroyed during the Nazi period or afterwards. 28 gravestones are preserved.