Jewish cemetery Oerlinghausen

According to an old document from 1766, the cemetery should have been established already "one hundred years ago", i.e. around 1666. This would probably correspond approximately to the first immigration of Jews in the village. The oldest preserved gravestone, however, dates from 1761. Since late summer 1920 there has been a memorial stone in the center of the cemetery for the two fallen soldiers of the First World War of the Oerlinghausen synagogue community: Albert Kulemeyer (1918) and Ernst Joachim Meyer (1914). The last burial took place in 1937.

During the state violence against the Jews in November 1938, the cemetery escaped desecration or destruction. However, it was nevertheless desecrated at an unknown time during the Nazi period. In November 1945 former National Socialists had to remove the traces.

The cemetery is under monument protection.