Jewish cemetery (Attendorn)
The Attendorn Jewish Cemetery is located in the town of Attendorn in the Olpe district ; it is located on the street “Am Himmelsberg” and is a monument as a Jewish cemetery .
The site has been used as a cemetery since 1830. In 1864 it was officially confirmed as a Jewish cemetery. There are 33 tombstones on the 961 square meter site . The gravestone inscriptions in Hebrew / German are from the period between 1870 and 1936.
The small community of Attendorn Jews had belonged to the Lenhausen ( Finnentrop ) synagogue district since 1855 . Jews from Olpe were also buried in the cemetery. The last burial took place in 1942; Emil Stern had committed suicide on July 25, 1942.
Since 2018, a stele in the cemetery has been commemorating the unburied Attendorn Jews.
literature
- Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 .
Web links
- History of the Jewish community of Attendorn
- Attendorn. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Memorial book, Federal Republic of Germany. In: Memorial Book, Federal Republic of Germany.
- City of Attendorn. In: Historical diary archive.
- Photographs of the tombstones in the tombstone project of the Verein für Computer-Genealogie e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The West, Attendorn April 4, 2008
- ↑ a b Der Westen, Attendorn April 4, 2008
- ↑ Memorial Book, Federal Republic of Germany
- ↑ Charlotte Ortmann: The stories behind the graves of the Jewish cemetery. January 28, 2020, accessed on May 23, 2020 (German).
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 41.6 ″ N , 7 ° 54 ′ 21.3 ″ E