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Rosa Salomon was born in Winsen/Luhe in 1810. She was the first child of the influential Winsen merchant Joseph Salomon and his wife Bräunchen, née Heinemann. Rosa"s mother Bräunchen came from Bleckede and was a sister of Simon Heinemann, who went to Lüneburg in 1810 and started the large Lüneburg branch of the Heinemann family.
Rosa"s younger brothers Simon Salomon and Moritz Salomon also moved to Lüneburg in the 1830s and founded large families there.
At the same time, Rosa married merchant Gerson David Lindenberg from Vilsen. She moved in with him in Vilsen and had five children there, born between 1836 and 1849. Her first son Salomon Lindenberg stayed in Vilsen, taking over his father"s business; her second son David moved to Ebstorf in the Uelzen district, not far from Lüneburg. Her children Henriette, Sophie and Adolf all married into the extended Heinemann family and settled in Lüneburg.
As a result, Rosa and Gerson David Lindenberg also eventually moved to Lüneburg in their old age, where their children could look after them. Their son Ferdinand probably accompanied them or moved to Lüneburg a little later. In 1889, Rosa"s husband Gerson David Lindenberg died. Now a widow, Rosa Lindenberg continued to live in the house Am Ochsenmarkt, together with her son Ferdinand who died in 1897 after a long illness. Rosa died in December 1899 and was buried next to her husband in the Jewish cemetery. On her gravestone, it says in Hebrew: "The respected woman, Mrs. Rösche, daughter of Mr. Josef, is buried here. She died at a good old age".
The Lindenberg gravestones are two of the few that remained in Lüneburg after the cemetery was destroyed and completely leveled during the Nazi era. Together with several other gravestones, it had been used as building material for the foundations of a makeshift home which was erected in 1944. When this makeshift home was demolished in 1967, Rosa"s and Gerson"s stones came to light, along with a few others. It took a few more years before the gravestones were re-erected in the early 1970s, only as fragments and not in their original position.
Sources and info (in German):
Gravestone for Rosa Lindenberg: epidat - Forschungsplattform jüdische Grabsteinepigraphik, Lüneburg, lbg-6
Jewish Community Winsen-Luhe
History of the Lindenberg family, Vilsen
