DISTRICT: Göttingen (Goettingen).
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: On the Judenberg Langestrasse 105.
IN USE: Possibly as early as from 1719 until 1948. Oldest datable gravestone 1737.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 213.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1984/1985 copies of all gravestone inscriptions with translations of some these by Prof. Berndt Schaller.
- Juden in Südniedersachsen: Geschichte, Lebensverhältnisse, Denkmäler - Beiträge zu einer Tagung am 10. November 1990 in Göttingen; ed. Rainer Sabelleck pub. 1994 by Hahn, Hanover, 227 pages (DNB).
- This cemetery was extended in 1834 and again in 1884.
NOTE:
- The cemetery has been owned by the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony since 1955. Renovations were carried out in 1961, 1974/5, 1981 and 2000. More than 200 gravestones are still in place, although some are badly weathered or damaged. The last burial took place in 1948, that of Noa Rothschild.
SOURCES:
- University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 89-97 (DNB).
(Researched and translated from German March 2009).
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