DISTRICT: Lüneburg (Lueneburg).
LOCATION OF CEMETERY:
- On an unnamed footpath off the Lüneburger Straße, south-west outside town, in the Bürgerfors woods.
IN USE: From 1752 until 1935.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 36.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1980/82 photographs and copies with translations of inscriptions of all gravestones by Linde Weiland at the behest of the city of Uelzen.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Complete cemeter documentation by Busch 1996, pages 266-301.
NOTES:
- The original cemetery area comprising about 1700 sq.yds is still in existence today. Gravestones toppled during the Nazi era were re-erected after 1945. 36 gravestones exist to date out of approximately 75 in pre Nazi era times.
- The cemetery was desecrated on three occasions during the 1980s.
SOURCES: University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 215-218 (DNB).
(Researched and translated from German April 2009)