New Jewish cemetery (Meinerzhagen)
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
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.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 2.4 ″ N , 7 ° 38 ′ 47.1 ″ E