Jewish cemetery (Menden)
The Menden Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the town of Menden (Sauerland) in the Märkisches Kreis . It is located at Am Bromberken, Schwitter Weg / corner of Nordwall and is a listed building .
The 1,332 m² cemetery served the Menden Jewish community as a burial place from 1837 to 1937. The 31 tombstones ( mazewot ) are in their original position and some have Hebrew inscriptions.
An air raid shelter is laid out under the cemetery.
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
Commons : Jewish Cemetery - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Menden. 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 ° 26 ′ 21.7 " N , 7 ° 47 ′ 47.2" E