Jewish Cemetery, Göttingen

The Göttingen Jewish Cemetery in Göttingen is located at the address Kasseler Landstraße 1a directly on the old western outskirts of Göttingen. The location is historically significant southwest of the old Göttingen court lime tree in the immediate vicinity of the former place of execution. Today the adjacent streets are "Posthof", "Kasseler Landstraße" and "An der Gerichtslinde". The area of the cemetery covers a good 6000 m² with meanwhile more than 500 graves. A wall enclosure of the 19th century shields the cemetery from the traffic of today's arterial road Kasseler Landstraße. The oldest of the 437 preserved historic mazewot dates from 1701; the cemetery may have been established shortly before at the end of the 17th century. Adjacent to the south and west is the area of the expanded and much larger Göttingen City Cemetery, which was developed about 200 years later. The Jewish Cemetery "is the only publicly visible testimony to Göttingen's Jewish city history that survived the exterminations of the Nazi era - a testimony that reflects the long history of Jewish life in Göttingen as well as the assimilation efforts of Jewish citizens."