Jewish cemetery (Anholt)

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Jewish cemetery in Anholt

The Anholt Jewish Cemetery is located in Anholt , a district of the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Isselburg in the Borken district .

The 763 m² cemetery is located in the Dwarsefeld district in the immediate vicinity of the former farm "Borkes Kathe", Dwarsefeld 2, behind the sports facility of SC Westfalia Anholt. It is no longer possible to determine when the cemetery was established. One of the tombstones found at the beginning of the 20th century was from 1821. Of the seventeen tombstones still in existence today, the oldest is from 1841.

It was buried in this cemetery until 1934. It has been maintained by the city of Anholt since 1956 (since 1975 by the city of Isselburg).

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

Commons : Anholt Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Anholt. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.

Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 20.1 ″  N , 6 ° 24 ′ 52.6 ″  E