DISTRICT: Dransfeld, Landkreis Göttingen.

LOCATION OF CEMETERY:To the east of the village, Am Mühlenberg approx. here.

IN USE:

• Reported to have began in a small grove east of the village in around 1770. Last burial said to have taken place in 1881.

NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 28.

DOCUMENTATION:

• 1983/1984 photographs and copies of inscriptions with translations of all gravestones by Prof. Dr. Berndt Schaller

NOTES:

• The cemetery's ownership passed to the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony in 1960.
• In the early 1960s the badly neglected cemetery was restored by local Dankelshausen school children. Presently the cemetery is regularly cared for by the local Minister of the Protestant church.

SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 443-447 (DNB).

(Researched and translated from German June 2009)