Cemetery

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.

Third cemetery of the Jewish community, the first burial ground was on the site of the Weinbergswiese after the Rheinsberg Gate from 1824. By exchange from 1829 the second on an area at the foot of the vineyard in the direction of Alt-Ruppin, where the dead were reburied. 1879 New construction of the third cemetery, as the old one was occupied. Obligation to demarcate the new Jewish cemetery on the outside with a brick wall and on the other side with a hedge. A small piece of the wall is still preserved.

various gravestones, inscriptions of the four black gravestones, inscription front Hebrew

Here rests in God our heart-loved father and grandfather, the merchant Max Wermuth from Lieberose. b. 20 Decbr. 1860 d. 24 Octbr. 1912 Rest gently. You were charitable and modest, your life was weighed down by pain. Carried with patience your heavy suffering. Now it rests gently, your good heart.

The dead of the Jewish community of Fürstenberg were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Friedland before 1840. A separate cemetery was built in 1840 far outside the city and used until 1890, of which nothing remains. From 1890 burials were made in the newly built cemetery until 1939 when its use was terminated. The cemetery was desecrated during the Nazi period, from the original 25 stones only 15 are left. In 1993 there was another desecration, 11 stones were overturned. To protect the cemetery since then not freely accessible.

The Jewish cemetery Potsdam in the Puschkinallee 18 was created in 1743 on today's Pfingstberg. The oldest and at the same time only grave from the founding year of the cemetery belongs to Mrs. Edel, who died on 24.02.1743.

Jews settled in East Frisia since the beginning of the 16th century. In this time there was already a Jewish community in Norden. In 1569 the first cemetery was leased. It was the first cemetery in East Frisia. Also the Jews from Emden and Aurich buried their dead zunächst here.

The first synagogue was built in 1804 and rebuilt in 1903. A mikvah was attached to it. Next door was the school building and a house with administrative rooms.The synagogue was burned down in 1938.

The island of Norderney belonged to the synagogue community of Norden.