Jewish cemetery

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Jewish graveyard in Altona

Königstraße
Hamburg, Hamburg 22767
+49 (0)40 3005 1300 (Information für Touristen)

Altona's most important cultural monument is located behind high iron railings and shady old trees. Sephardic Jews from Portugal were given the right to set up a cemetery here as early as 1611. Later on, German Jews were also buried here. In Altona there was freedom of religious belief until 1933. Among the celebrities buried here is Hamburg's famous banker, Salomon Heine. The cemetery is divided into different sections, the south-western part of which has very old, shallow Sephardic tombs with Hebrew and Spanish writing on them. In other sections, there are some more recent graves of German and Eastern European Jews. If you are interested in a visit, the key to the graveyard can be picked up at 29 Schäferkampsallee.

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