Jewish cemetery (Wünnenberg)

The Jewish cemetery Wünnenberg is located in the town of Bad Wünnenberg in the Paderborn district in North Rhine-Westphalia . As a Jewish cemetery , it is an architectural monument . In the cemetery on Hoppenberg in the upper town, 20 gravestones have been preserved in two rows.

history

The cemetery was probably opened in 1820 and fenced in around 1901. The last burial took place in 1922. The synagogue community in Wünnenberg was dissolved in 1932, and the cemetery and synagogue on Schäferstrasse were taken over by the synagogue community in Haaren. The cemetery was devastated during the Nazi era . It was acquired by the civil parish of Wünnenberg in December 1940 and restituted after 1945. The cemetery with a size of 1479 m² has been a listed building since 1987.

Web links

Wünnenberg. 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.

Individual evidence

^ Marie-Theres Potthoff: Bad Wünnenberg . In: Historical Commission for Westphalia (Hrsg.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Westphalia and Lippe: The localities and territories in today's administrative district Detmold . Ardey, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-87023-283-2 , pp. 218-219 .

51.51664 8.69822Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 59.9 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 53.6" E

[1] Marie-Theres Potthoff: Bad Wünnenberg . In: Historical Commission for Westphalia (Hrsg.): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Westphalia and Lippe: The localities and territories in today's administrative district Detmold . Ardey, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-87023-283-2 , pp. 218-219 .