Jewish cemetery (Daseburg)

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The Daseburg Jewish Cemetery is located in the Daseburg district of the city of Warburg in the Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia . As a Jewish cemetery , it is an architectural monument .

The Jewish community in Daseburg was the largest in 1802 with 31 members. The Jews from Daseburg visited the synagogue in Rösebeck and maintained a prayer room in Daseburg at least from 1774 to around 1850. When the synagogue congregations were established in 1855, together with the Jews from Rösebeck, they formed a branch congregation of the Warburg synagogue congregation. The use of the cemetery in Borgentreich is documented for 1809 .

The cemetery in the Daseburg district Auf der Höte was laid out before 1856. It is 516 m² and consists of three rows of graves with 24 tombstones . Jews from Rösebeck are also buried here. The cemetery has been a listed building since 1992 and is looked after by the city of Warburg.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ursula Olschewski: Warburg-Daseburg . 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. 751-754 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 34.2 "  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 23.3"  E