Jewish cemetery (Neuenkleusheim)

The Neuenkleusheim Jewish Cemetery is a burial place for Jews in Neuenkleusheim , a district of Olpe in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The Jewish cemetery is about 760 m² and is located at Am Eichhagen above the village on the northern slope of the Ratzelberg in a spruce forest. It is surrounded by a low earth wall and can be reached via Neuenkleusheimer Straße and Friedhofsweg. The cemetery was first occupied after 1781. The last funeral took place in 1919.

The cemetery was desecrated during the National Socialist era . Gravestones are no longer there. It has been a listed building since 2008 .

See also

• List of Jewish cemeteries in Germany
• List of architectural monuments in Olpe , No. 74

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 , pp. 471–472.

Web links

• Neuenkleusheim. 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 ° 1 ′ 8.5 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 42.9 ″  E