Jewish cemetery (Winterberg)

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The Jewish cemetery Winterberg is a Jewish cemetery in the town of Winterberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is fenced in and is located on a mountain slope on Wernsdorfer Straße . There are eight tombstones ( Mazewa ) on it.

history

The cemetery was occupied from 1836 to 1935. Before that, the Winterberg Jews were buried in Medebach . During the National Socialist era , the cemetery was severely damaged and restored after 1945. It has been protected as a historical monument since December 13, 2010 .

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Winterberg , No. 92
• List of Jewish cemeteries in Germany

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. 354–355 and Figure 334.

Web links

• Winterberg. 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 ° 11 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 2.9 ″  E