Jewish cemetery (Varenholz)

The Jewish cemetery in Varenholz

The Varenholz Jewish Cemetery is located in Varenholz , a town in Kalletal in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The cemetery is a protected architectural monument .

The Varenholz Jewish cemetery is located on Felsenkeller street , south of today's municipal cemetery . The cemetery was probably created in 1867 and was last used in 1902. Today there are still five well-preserved tombstones ( mazewot ) in the cemetery.

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 , p. 320.
Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. , Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 , p. 96.

Web links

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

Varenholz , 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

↑ Jürgen Hartmann: The memorandum of the Detmold teacher and preacher Moritz Rülf on the synagogues and cemeteries in Lippe 1936/37 (PDF; 1.1 MB), in the e-publication Rosenland Lippe 9/2009, p. 34

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[1] Jürgen Hartmann: The memorandum of the Detmold teacher and preacher Moritz Rülf on the synagogues and cemeteries in Lippe 1936/37 (PDF; 1.1 MB), in the e-publication Rosenland Lippe 9/2009, p. 34