Jewish cemetery (Schwerte)
Gravestones of the burial place
The Schwerte Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Schwerte in the Unna district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The cemetery on the north wall was first mentioned in 1796 and was located on the site of the city moat on the north wall.
The cemetery was occupied from around 1762 to 1939. 78 tombstones have been preserved.
The cemetery is surrounded by a wall about two meters high and still contains about 96 graves. Part of the cemetery was probably filled and built after 1887.
literature
- Liselotte Hagenah: History of the Jews in Schwerte. Ed. on behalf of the Heimatverein Schwerte eV, Schwerte 1988.
Web links
- The Jewish cemetery in Schwerte (PDF; 390 kB)
- Schwerte comprehensive school project
- Swords. 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.
Bork | Brambauer | Ergste | Fröndenberg | Came | Lünen | Swords | Unna | Werne | Westhofen (old) | Westhofen (new)
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 7 ° 34 ′ 6.1 ″ E