New Jewish cemetery (Warendorf)
The New Jewish Cemetery Warendorf is located in the town of Warendorf in the Warendorf district in North Rhine-Westphalia . As a Jewish cemetery , it is an architectural monument and entered in the list of monuments under monument number 460 .
About 15 tombstones have been preserved in the cemetery in front of the Münstertor at the fork in Hugo-Spiegelstrasse and Gerberstrasse .
history
The cemetery was occupied from 1823 to 1938 and then again from 1974 to 1987.
The dead from Freckenhorst , Westkirchen , Harsewinkel and Beelen were also buried there. The cemetery was devastated during the Nazi era . The remaining tombstones were placed in the northern area of the cemetery in 1945, but the graves are spread across the entire cemetery area.
See also
- List of architectural monuments in Warendorf , monument number 378 (Quabbe) / 460 (Hugo Spiegel-Straße)
- Jewish community of Warendorf
Web links
- Warendorf (Neuer Friedhof) In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia RZ
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '18.9 " N , 7 ° 59' 2.5" E