Cemetery

The oldest Jewish cemetery was established in 1421 in the Rossau. Most of the graves date from the time of Vienna's second Jewish community (1624-1670). It saved the cemetery from imminent dissolution by redeeming it to the city of Vienna in the name of the brothers Isak and Israel Fränkel for 4,000 gulden. A short time later it passed to the war commissioner and court banker Samuel Oppenheimer, who subsequently had a poorhouse and hospital built.

After 1920, a separate Jewish burial ground was created on the grounds of the Görden State Institution, directly next to the Christian institution cemetery. Between 1922 and 1941, a total of 46 Jewish patients* were buried there. The overgrown plot was only restored in 2006 with funds from the state of Brandenburg, and a memorial stone was erected.

There are 16 gravestones of Jewish soldiers from the 1914 - 1918 war preserved in the Jewish cemetery of honor at the Waldfriedhof Aachen. They are located on a small, elevated area near the entrance of the cemetery. The gravestones are difficult to find in the huge grave fields.

The old Jewish cemetery is no longer recognizable as such, around 1928 there were still four visible gravestones, whereabouts unknown.

The new Jewish cemetery is located as part of the general cemetery from the street on the left side of the perimeter wall, but has an entrance along the footpath to Starkenburg. A formerly associated extension plot is no longer part of the cemetery. The entrance gate and the arrangement of the gravestones were renewed after 1945.

On 02.04.1740 the Müncheberg magistrate gave the Jews residing in the town an area on the vineyard as a burial ground. Jewish burials had probably taken place in this area outside the town before. In 1756 the Jewish community bought the 18.85 x 11.31 m large area and established their cemetery on it. In 1837 the cemetery was extended and surrounded on three sides with a wall and on the back side with a wooden reinforcement and provided with footbridges and flowerbeds. In 1886 it was extended again by 16m in length and 12m in width.