Jewish cemetery (Gangelt)

Gangelt Jewish cemetery

The Gangelt Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Gangelt , a municipality in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Before setting up their own cemetery, the Jews from Gangelt buried their dead in the old cemetery in Heinsberg .

The cemetery at Wirtsberg on the B 56 was occupied from 1877 to 1937. There are 31 tombstones on it . At the beginning of May 2010 almost all of the gravestones in the cemetery were knocked over when the cemetery was desecrated. On July 16, 2019, the cemetery was desecrated again.

Web links

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

• Gangelt. In: Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine. 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 in Gangelt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Horror in Gangelt: Jewish cemetery desecrated. AZ-WEB.DE from May 2, 2010
2. ^ Cemetery in Gangelt desecrated. AZ-Web.De from July 17, 2019

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 29.8 "  N , 6 ° 0 ′ 52.9"  E