Old Jewish Cemetery (Lemgo)

The old Jewish cemetery in Lemgo

The old Jewish cemetery is located in the town of Lemgo in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Jewish cemetery is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Lemgo .

description

The old Jewish cemetery of Lemgo is located on the Ostertorwall (formerly Bone Hauerwall ) on the corner of Hirtenstrasse. The cemetery was occupied from 1721 until the New Jewish Cemetery was built at the beginning of the 20th century.

During the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the Jewish cemetery was desecrated and all gravestones ( mazewot ) were removed. In 1940 the site was expropriated and incorporated into the city ramparts.

In 1948 the cemetery was restored to a fair condition. As the old tombstones from the cemetery were no longer there, 8 tombstones from the Jewish cemetery in Hohenhausen were placed there.

literature

• Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia . Part III: Detmold administrative district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 1.1), Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , pp. 327–328.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Lemgo)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lemgo (old cemetery) In: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Editor: Claudia Pohl.
• Lemgo In: From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area , (www.jüdische-gemeinden.de).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lemgo (old cemetery) In: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 45.6 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 14.9 ″  E