VI. Buildings Integral to the Former Life and/or Persecution of Jews in Harburg. 5. Adjacent No. 74 Schwarzenbergstraße. Jewish Cemetery Schwarzenberg, 1690-1936. 1813 destroyed. 1857 Mortuary. 1936 proscribed. 1938 Surveyor's Office closes Mortuary. 1938 November Pogrom arson. Demolished shortly thereafter. Cemetery conserved. Ascending the right side of Schwarzenbergstraße from the town turn right onto the path after the buildings end and the green area begins. This path curves to the left passing a side entrance to a school and a Drug Rehabilitation Centre before arriving at the cemetery on the right. This is a small but extremely beautiful cemetery. Jewish cemetery in Schwarzenbergstraße in Harburg. Jewish cemetery in Schwarzenbergstraße in Harburg. The mortuary was situated in the south-western corner of the Jewish cemetery in Schwarzenbergstraße 8 to 10 metres from the "Schützenpark" pub, in an otherwise undeveloped area. The following account of the fate of the mortuary situated in Schwarzenbergstraße on the night ot the 9th/10th November 1938, the so-called "Reichskristallnacht" pogrom, was related during the trail of the head of the Harburg NSDAP in 1949: "The mortuary was built in 1857 and in 1900 enlarged with a spacious prayer room. The building was 19 metres long and 7.5 metres wide and built with solid brick walls. The roof was timbered." ... The last burial took place in 1936. The cemetery was fully occupied. It was not expected that the mortuary be used again as Jewish cemeteries are established in perpetuity so there would be no levelling of graves and new occupation. In September 1938, at the instigation of the NSDAP District 8 in Harburg, the building control department determined that the mortuary was in a very unsafe condition. A letter dated the 7th October 1938 informed the Harburg Synagogue Association of this decision and that the mortuary was not allowed to be used as long as the dangerous state of repair of the building remained. In a letter dated the 8th October 1938 the Synagogue Association informed the building control department that according to its information a contract had been issued to demolish the mortuary. The Hamburg Jewish Religious Association confirmed this in a letter dated the 12th October 1938. ... "Around 19hr the mortuary was set alight. A large crowd of spectators immediately gathered. Several men, members of the Marine SA, ... dragged out the hearse, extinguished the fire to the curtains, and left it somewhat to one side under trees outside the cemetery. Here the vehicle was set alight again by members of the Hitler Youth and other adolescents. The fire brigade was prevented from extinguishing the burning mortuary by the crowd. The timbered roof and other wooden components were aflame. The Hitler Youth lined up in a semicircle around the fire accompanying each callapse of burning timber with a drum roll. ... After a period of 1½ to 2 hours, when the crowd had considerably dispersed, the fire brigade were able to extinguish what was now a ruin."