Jewish cemetery (Schüttorf)

The Schüttorf Jewish Cemetery is located in the town of Schüttorf in the Grafschaft Bentheim district in Lower Saxony . As a Jewish cemetery , it is an architectural monument . 19 gravestones have been preserved in the 1370 m² cemetery on Samernschen Strasse .

history

The cemetery was probably laid out as early as the 17th century and was occupied until 1936. The oldest tombstone is from 1813, the youngest from 1936.

literature

• Daniel Fraenkel: Bentheim (today Bad Bentheim). In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1 and 2 (1668 pp.), Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pp. 187-195 (therein p. 194: the Jewish cemetery in Schüttorf).

Web links

• Schüttorf In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Jewish cemeteries in Lower Saxony

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 19 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 3 ″  E