Jewish cemetery (Espelkamp)
The Espelkamp Jewish Cemetery is a protected architectural monument in the city of Espelkamp in the Minden-Lübbecke district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The cemetery in the Altgemeinde Espelkamp district on the street Auf der Heide has been registered as a monument since 1987.
The cemetery was occupied from around 1737 to 1940. There are 77 gravestones on it . Before the Nazis wreaked havoc in Rahden , the deceased Jews of the Rahden synagogue community found their final resting place there.
See also
Web links
- Espelkamp. 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.
- Jewish cemetery Alt-Espelkamp, Auf der Heide (photo)
Espelkamp | Frille | Local mountains | Heimsen | Levern | Lübbecke (old) | Lübbecke (new) | Minden | Petershagen | Prussian Oldendorf | Windheim
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 33.3 " N , 8 ° 36 ′ 29.5" E