Jewish cemetery (Horn)

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Horn Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Horn was the burial place for the Jews in Horn, Bad Meinberg and the surrounding villages. The cemetery on Paderborner Straße has been entered in the list of architectural monuments in Horn-Bad Meinberg since April 25, 1995 .

Characteristic

The age of the cemetery cannot be proven with certainty, but it was probably established before 1850. The 1159 m² property is surrounded by a low hedge, there are still 108 gravestones on it, the youngest of them for Jakob Hirschfeld, who died on January 22, 1939.

literature

  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part III: Detmold administrative district (=  contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 1.1 ). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , p. 317 .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Horn-Bad Meinberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 11.7 "  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 4.4"  E