DISTRICT: Schaumburg.

LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Judenkirchhof at the Birkenallee close to Marienstrasse..

IN USE: From 1950 until the present.

NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 168.

DOCUMENTATION:

• 1989/1990 photographs of all gravestones with translation of inscriptions by Landesverband/Zentralarchiv.

NOTES:

• First mentioned in 1793 and extended in 1824, there is now no trace of an older cemetery, located south-east of Bückeburg, on the small wooded ridge of the Bückeberg, known as Harrl.
• The cemetery was vandalised in 1955, 1975 and 1992.
• The cemetery became the property of the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony in 1960.

SOURCES: University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 363-372 (DNB).

(Researched and translated from German May 2009)