Jewish cemetery (Gescher)

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The Jewish cemetery in Gescher

The Jewish cemetery Gescher is a Jewish cemetery in the town of Gescher in the Borken district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is located in the city center on Südlohner Damm .

There are 13 tombstones with Hebrew and German inscriptions on it. It is 456 square meters. The cemetery, opened in 1867, was also used by the Jews from Velen .

This burial site was devastated during the Nazi era and almost completely destroyed when it was desecrated again in 1988.

literature

  • Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 .

Web links

  • Gescher. 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 ° 57 ′ 19.4 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 50.3"  E