DISTRICT: Diepholz.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Barenburg - directly at junction of Zum Bahnhof and Mauseburg roads.
IN USE: Possibly as early as from 1740 until around 1925.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES:
- 54 of which 21 have hebrew inscriptions only. Oldest datable gravestone 1809.
DOCUMENTATION:
- Complete cemetery documentation in preparation by Günter Schmidt-Bollmann
- PUBLICATIONS:
- Full cemetery and community history by Arbeitskreises "Jüdische Heimatforschung im Landkreis Diepholz"
- History by Pape 1970.
- NOTES:
- This cemetery was surrounded by a wall and a ditch. It was also used by the Jewish community of Sulingen up to 1846.
- The cemetery was renovated in 1993, following transfer of ownership to the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony in 1960.
SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 159-164 (DNB).
(Researched and translated from German May 2009)