New Jewish cemetery (Meinerzhagen)

Jewish Cemetery

Memorial stele

The New Jewish Cemetery is a burial place for Jews in the Sauerland town of Meinerzhagen . It is a listed building .

The 1148 m² Jewish cemetery is located above the Catholic cemetery on Heerstraße. There are still 15 tombstones ( mazewot ) on it. There is also a memorial stone for the Jewish citizens of the city who were murdered in the Shoah .

history

The Jewish community acquired the property in 1910 to replace the old cemetery . The cemetery was occupied from late 1913 to 1943. In 1939 it was badly damaged. 22 Russian slave laborers were also buried here during the Second World War . The city of Meinerzhagen had to return the property they had acquired in 1944 to the Jewish Trust Corporation in 1945 .

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Meinerzhagen , No. 46
• 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 , p. 426/427.

Web links

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

• Meinerzhagen 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.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 2.4 ″  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 47.1 ″  E