Jewish cemetery (Medebach)

Medebach Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Medebach , in the small town of Medebach in the Hochsauerlandkreis , is located on Glindfelder Weg (Schönemarkt) and is 1,933 m² in size. There are still 26 tombstones on it , the oldest of which is dedicated to a person who died in 1808.

history

The cemetery was laid out in the early 19th century. The Winterberg Jews buried their dead here until 1832 . The last funeral took place in 1939. In 1941 a number of tombstones were misused to build a beehive. Sheep and cows have grazed on the property before. After 1959 the cemetery was repaired by the Jewish civil community.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Medebach , No. 63
• List of Jewish cemeteries in Germany

literature

• Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part V: Arnsberg district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 1.3 ) JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1449-7 , p. 334 and illustrations 299 and 300.

Web links

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

• Medebach. 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.

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 6.6 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 42.7"  E