Jewish cemetery (Schötmar)

The Jewish cemetery in Schötmar

The Schötmar Jewish Cemetery is located on Oerlinghauser Strasse in Schötmar , a district of the city of Bad Salzuflen in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Jewish cemetery is registered with the number 209 as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Bad Salzuflen .

description

The approximately 1,600 m² Jewish cemetery to the south of the Werre cemetery was occupied from 1871 to 1955. There are 63 grave sites with well-preserved tombstones ( mazewot ) in the cemetery . Before the Jews of Schötmar could create their own burial ground, they buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery in Salzuflen, first mentioned in 1607 .

literature

• Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia . Part III: Detmold administrative district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 1.1), Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7616-1397-0 , pp. 282, 287.

Web links

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

• Local history of Schötmar - The Jewish burial place on Oerlinghauser Straße (PDF)
• Schötmar 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.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Jewish cemetery in Schötmar (PDF) [1]

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 1.4 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 0.1 ″  E