New Jewish Cemetery (Sonsbeck)

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The Jewish cemetery in Sonsbeck (2008)

The New Jewish Cemetery Sonsbeck is located in the municipality of Sonsbeck in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia . As a Jewish cemetery , it is a listed building and listed under monument number 20 in the list of monuments.

33 tombstones have been preserved in the cemetery on Xantener Straße . The cemetery, which was occupied from 1844 to 1937, can be reached via a private road.

Old Jewish Cemetery

51 ° 36 ′ 26.6 "  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 40"  E

The old Jewish cemetery between the historic city wall and the moat, which was partly built over by Filderstrasse, was occupied from the 18th century to 1834. There are no more tombstones in this cemetery. They had already disappeared in the 1920s and were no longer recorded on maps from 1906.

See also

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Sonsbeck)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Sonsbeck (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.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sonsbeck (old 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.
  2. measuring table sheet 2426: Xanten, 1906 (1: 25000) online
    map of the German Empire, 1: 100,000, part III / IV: sheet 353: Wesel, 1906 online
    or also in the SLUB's card forum

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 44.7 "  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 42.5"  E