Cemetery Drensteinfurt

The  cemetery was established in 1826, on a site that  had long been used as a place of execution.

The oldest surviving gravestone dates from 1853.An expansion of the der burial ground took place in 1891.... The last burial  took place  1929. In 1936 and 1937 the cemetery was desecrated by National Socialist vandalism.

In the mid-1950s, the Jewish cemetery was repaired, and some gravestones were also restored. Today there are 26 tombstones on the burial ground, it is assumed that about 37 tombstones are missing