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)