BÜCKEBURG (BUECKEBURG): 31675 Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)
(Gerz, Peters). LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Judenkirchhof at the
Birkenallee close to Marienstrasse.. IN USE: From 1950 until the
present. NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 168. - 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) Last Updated on Wednesday, 15
July 2009 18:51