Jewish cemetery (Warburg)

The Jewish cemetery on the city wall at the Sackturm

The Warburg Jewish Cemetery is located in the town of Warburg in the Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia . As a Jewish cemetery , it is an architectural monument .

285 tombstones have been preserved in the cemetery at Am Sacktor on the castle moat .

history

The cemetery was occupied from around 1828/30 to 1971. It was badly devastated during the Nazi era . After the Second World War , the post-war community had a memorial built from the rubble of the tombstones .

Old Jewish Cemetery

There are no more tombstones on the old Jewish cemetery Mollhauser Graben / Judengraben, which was occupied from 1687 to around 1828. This cemetery was expanded in 1758, 1772 and 1796.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Warburg (monument number ---)
• Jewish community of Warburg
• Warburg # Jewish life in Warburg

Web links

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

• Warburg (Am Sacktor) and Warburg (Alter Friedhof) In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Inscriptions from the Jewish cemetery in Warburg near Allemannia Judaika

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 15.7 "  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 35.5"  E