Jewish cemetery (Castrop)

Jewish cemetery in Castrop

The Jewish cemetery in Castrop , a district of Castrop-Rauxel in the Recklinghausen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), was established in 1743. The Jewish cemetery between Altstadtring and Oberer Münsterstrasse is a protected monument .

history

The Jewish community in Castrop has buried its dead in its own cemetery since 1743. The last burial in the Jewish cemetery in Castrop took place in 1939. In the years 1938 to 1945 many tombstones ( mazewot ) were destroyed. That is why there are only 59 tombstones left today.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).

Web links

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

• Castrop. 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: 51 ° 33 ′ 7 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 32.1"  E