Jewish cemetery (Balve)

Jewish cemetery in Balve

Two tombstones

The Jüdische Friedhof Balve is a Jewish cemetery in the town of Balve in the Märkisches Kreis . It is on the Dechant-Amecke-Weg road.

There are six tombstones on it . It is 394 square meters.

The cemetery was occupied between 1868 and 1935. In 1972 this burial place was bought by the Catholic Church.

A previous cemetery was opened in 1718, its location is unknown.

literature

Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 .

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

Balve. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.