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latest: Mathilde Hahn [*1844] | Gustav Ahrons [*1825] | Marcus Jeremias
Georg, Robert and Friederike Katzenstein (1874-1910)
Friederike Katzenstein (1910-1915)
Miss Friederike Katzenstein (1915-1923)
Friederike Katzenstein - consistently referred to as “Miss Katzenstein” in the Lüneburg address books - was born in Hebenshausen in Hesse in 1836. At that time, this small Hessian town was home to a large and important Jewish community. It is possible that Friederike was a sister of Bleckede merchant Elias Katzenstein, who also came from Hebenshausen. In any case, she moved to Lüneburg around 1877. Together with Elias" two young sons Georg Katzenstein and Robert Katzenstein, she lived in a house on the Street Auf dem Meere.
While the young men soon left Lüneburg again, Friederike Katzenstein remained in Lüneburg. Over the years, she lived in various places in the western part of the old town, her last residence being Im Wendischen Dorfe 28. She died in 1923, at the age of 87, and was buried in Lüneburg"s Jewish cemetery.
Sources and info (in German):
History of the Hebenshausen Jewish Community:
https://www.alemannia-judaica.de/hebenshausen_synagoge.htm
https://www.heimatgeschichte-hebenshausen.de/judentum/