New Jewish cemetery (Lüdenscheid)

New Jewish Cemetery (2009)

The New Jewish Cemetery Lüdenscheid is a Jewish cemetery in the town of Lüdenscheid in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in the south of the Ramsberg district . There are around 50 tombstones on it .

history

The cemetery was occupied from 1887 to 1940. The graves of the Lennhoff family were moved here from the old cemetery on Knapperstrasse in 1955. The cemetery is protected as an architectural monument.

Care of the cemetery

The initiative “Nobody will be forgotten”, an association of young people from Lüdenscheid and the surrounding area, wants to preserve memories, fight against forgetting and also be very targeted. In consultation with the responsible rabbi of the Jewish community in Dortmund and the STL (Stadtreinigungs-, Transport und Baubetrieb Lüdenscheid), the young people “slightly beautified” the old Jewish cemetery on Ramsberg and brought it back in order. Therefore, from June 7th to 10th, 2012, they carried out so-called “restoration measures” in the Jewish cemetery. As part of these measures, the ivy was cut, the moss removed, the weeds weed, the gate painted, the leaves swept, and the like. According to those responsible, the initiative has made it its task to restore the cemetery grounds in order to preserve the memory of the faded Jewish community. From the time before the Second World War, all that remained of the once flourishing Jewish life in Germany was a memory that now had to be preserved. In connection with this mission, there was a city tour through Lüdenscheid on Saturday, June 9th, 2012, during which places of Jewish life in Lüdenscheid were visited.