Jewish cemetery (Metelen)

Jewish cemetery in Metelen

The Metelen Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Metelen in the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located on Schöppinger Strasse at the corner of Amselweg.

There are four tombstones with Hebrew inscriptions on the 110 m² site . The youngest stone is from 1923. There is a German inscription on the back.

From 1835 it served the Jewish community as a burial place. After 1945 the area of ​​this cemetery was reduced.

The cemetery is registered as monument number 57 in the list of monuments of the municipality of Metelen .

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

• Metelen. 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 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 47 ″  E