Old Jewish cemetery

The first indication of the cemetery are maps from 1680, which show a short branch channel on the Lippe, which was probably dug for the extraction of earth with which the site was fortified. On the map of Johann Peter Roscher from 1776 it can be seen that the cemetery had already grown up to the Burgmühle by then. A further enlargement did not take place and until its abandonment the area measured 2.85 acres.

In 1809 the marriage and immigration restrictions for Jews were lifted and the Jewish community in Lippstadt grew from 15 (1808) to 50 in 1829. Very little is known about the number of buried in the cemetery and their names and only some of the last buried of the community are known. These were

• an unnamed infant, deceased on September 9, 1822 and buried on September 12, 1822
• the 73-year-old Bendix Isaak Lilienfeld, deceased on June 19, 1825 and buried on June 22. June 1825
• the 22-year-old Kürassier Heinemann Berliner, deceased December 4, 1825 and buried December 7, 1825
• the 89-year-old Bes Bacharach, deceased May 27, 1829 and buried May 30. May 1829
• the 69-year-old Elias Bacharach, deceased Nov. 24, 1832, and buried Nov. 26. November 1832

The cemetery was already well filled by the end of the 1820s due to the growth in the Jewish community, and in 1831 the then community leader Matthias Arend Rosenbaum asked the Lippstädter Bürgermeister Gallenkamp to provide a new Jewish burial place in the Lippstadt central cemetery, which was established in 1821. (Source: Wikipedia, Jüd. Friedhöfe in Lippstadt)

In the Lippstadt City Museum you can see a tombstone with the inscription "Bacharach" recovered from the Lippe River at the old Jüdische cemetery.