Lecture with book presentation by PD Dr Joachim Krüger

This book is the first to record, translate and annotate the surviving gravestones and their inscriptions. They are supplemented by biographies of the buried persons. A source edition of documents on the history of the cemetery completes the volume.
This is preceded by a historical categorisation of the Jewish cemetery in Niederhof. From 1757, a small group of Jews moved to Stralsund in Swedish Pomerania. They were called by the local banker Joachim Ulrich Giese, who, together with Adolf Friedrich von Olthof, was commissioned by the Swedish-Pomeranian government to set up a mint. This was the starting point for the later Jewish settlements in the Swedish-Pomeranian towns, including Greifswald. However, the growing Jewish community was not allowed to bury their dead on the territory of the city of Stralsund. Giese therefore provided them with a plot on his Niederhof estate in 1776. The cemetery was used until 1850 and survived the National Socialist era. It is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries still in existence on the southern Baltic coast.

In co-operation with the Cultural Officer for Pomerania and East Brandenburg and the Society for Pomeranian History, Antiquities and Art.
Admission: 3,50 Euro

Andreas Ruwe: The Niederhof cemetery. The oldest Jewish cemetery in Western Pomerania as a mirror of Jewish life. Reconstructed, transcribed and annotated. With the assistance of Nathanja Hüttenmeister and Joachim Krüger.