Old Jewish cemetery (Lüdenscheid)

The Old Jewish Cemetery Lüdenscheid is an abandoned Jewish cemetery in the town of Lüdenscheid in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . The triangular plot is on the corner of Knapper Strasse and Lösenbacher Strasse . Gravestones ( Mazewa ) are no longer available in the cemetery.

history

The burial site was laid out at the end of the 18th century and expanded in 1823. The owners were initially the brothers Isaak and Leifmann Lennhoff, as the Jewish community of Lüdenscheid was not a corporation under public law and was therefore not legally competent . The cemetery, which is also known as the hereditary burial of the Lennhoff family, became the property of the synagogue community in 1867 . The last burial took place in 1907. In 1955 the dead were exhumed and reburied in the New Jewish Cemetery on Ramsberg.

See also

• List of Jewish cemeteries in Germany

literature

• Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part V: Arnsberg district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 1.3 ) JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1449-7 , p. 422/423.

Web links

• Lüdenscheid (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.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 8.3 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 26.9"  E