Jewish cemetery (Hopsten)
The Jewish cemetery in Hopsten , a community in the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia , was established in 1904 and was occupied until 1931. The approximately 400 m² Jewish cemetery on Schapener Straße is a protected monument .
The cemetery survived the Nazi era undamaged. Today there are still eight tombstones . In 2018 the cemetery was fenced in with a larch wood fence.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).
Web links
Commons : Jewish Cemetery - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Hopsten In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 17, 2018: "Island with a frame made of larch"
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '25.4 " N , 7 ° 35' 9.4" E