The Thedinghausen Jewish Cemetery was a former Jewish cemetery that existed in Thedinghausen in the Verden district of Lower Saxony from 1854 to 1941.
Description The Jewish cemetery in Thedinghausen was located on what was then the edge of the town, according to a historical town map from around 1935 (today's address: Blankenburger Straße 13).
The cemetery contained an unknown number of gravestones for people of the Jewish faith from Thedinghausen and the surrounding area who had died between 1854 and 1934. In 1942 the cemetery was completely destroyed and later built over.
History
Before the cemetery was established (1854), Thedinghausen's Jews were buried at the Jewish cemetery in Hoyerhagen. During Nazi rule, the Jewish cemetery in Thedinghausen was acquired by a local merchant, and a single-family house was built on the property, which still stands today. According to the inscription on a memorial plaque on the Taubenturm, located on the town hall square, the cemetery was destroyed in 1942. There is no memorial stone or Stolperstein marking the site of the former Jewish cemetery.
Further reading
Anke Quast: Thedinghausen In: Herbert Obenaus (ed., in collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historisches Handbuch der jüdischen Gemeinden in Niedersachsen und Bremen. Volumes 1 and 2 (1668 pp.), Göttingen 2005, pp. 1470–1474, ISBN 3-89244-753-5. Kurt Asendorf: Die vergessenen Juden aus dem alten Amte Thedinghausen. Bremen/Thedinghausen 1991 Kurt Asendorf: Die Liquidation des Jüdischen Friedhofes in Thedinghausen. Dokumentation aus den Jahren 1940–1943. Beppen n.d. (1992) (mimeographed supplement to the publication "Die vergessenen Juden …")
References
External links
Topographic map 1:25,000 (3020) Thedinghausen [ca. 1935, Meßtischblatt] – Landkartenarchiv.de
Excerpt from the geodata of the Lower Saxony State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying