Jewish cemetery (Enger)

Jewish cemetery in Enger

The Jewish cemetery in Enger , a town in the southwest of the East Westphalian district of Herford ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), was established in the mid-1820s. The Jewish cemetery on Ziegelstrasse is a protected architectural monument .

history

The Jewish community in Enger buried their dead before setting up their own cemetery in the Jewish cemetery in Bünde . The last burial in the Jewish cemetery in Enger took place in 1938. Today there are still 56 tombstones ( mazewot ).

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tighter. 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: 52 ° 8 ′ 56.6 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 14.2 ″  E