New Jewish Cemetery (Lemgo)

The New Jewish Cemetery in Lemgo

The New Jewish Cemetery is located in the town of Lemgo in the Lippe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Jewish cemetery is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Lemgo .

description

The New Jewish Cemetery of Lemgo is located on the corner of Konsul-Wolff-Strasse and Hinter dem Friedhof , in the southeastern area of the Rintelner Strasse municipal cemetery. It was laid out as the successor to the old Jewish cemetery on Ostertorwall and was occupied from 1873 to 1950. Over 100 tombstones ( mazewot ) have been preserved in the cemetery . During the National Socialist era , the cemetery was desecrated, tombstones were overturned and the site was devastated.

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. 328, 377.

Web links

Commons : Neuer Jüdischer Friedhof - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Lemgo (Neuer Friedhof) 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.
Lemgo In: From the history of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area , (www.jüdische-gemeinden.de).

Individual evidence

^ Lemgo (new cemetery) 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.

52.03356 8.904152Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 8 ° 54 ′ 14.9 ″ E

[1] Lemgo (new cemetery) 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.