Jewish cemetery (dates)

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The Jewish cemetery Datteln is located in Datteln , a town in the Recklinghausen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is located on Düppelstraße, the entrance leads off from Lohstraße.

From 1817 to 1933 it served as a burial place for the Jewish community . It is 318 square meters. Only eight gravestones with Hebrew / German inscriptions have survived.

In 1938 he was desecrated. It was destroyed during hostilities in World War II.

literature

  • Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 .
  • Theodor Beckmann, Thomas Mertens: Jews in Datteln , history workshop of the community college of the city of Datteln. 1988

Web links

  • Dates. 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 ° 39 ′ 32.1 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 40.4 ″  E