DISTRICT: Northeim.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: An der Wiek.
IN USE: From 1777 until 1921.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 39 in 1986 and 36 in 1989/90. Oldest datable gravestone 1818.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1986 copies and translations of all gravestone inscriptions by Fritz Pinne, a student of Prof. Berndt Schaller at that time.
- 1989/1990 photographs and translations of gravestones by Landesverband/Zentralarchiv.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Mapping of graves, copies of German gravestone inscriptions by Kronenberg 1971, pages130-138.
- History by Kronenberg 1981.
- Mapping of graves, copies of German and Hebrew gravestone inscriptions by Pinne 1986.
- History by Abel 1995, pages 43-45.
NOTES:
- This cemetery was laid waste in 1939 and gravestones toppled or smashed. 39 gravestones were subsequently re-erected but it is uncertain whether they are all in their original places today.
- Reference to the existence here of a cemetery during the Middle Ages in Germania Judaica III/1, page 421.
SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 591-595 (DNB).
(Researched and translated from German May 2009)