Jewish cemetery Anröchte

The 2,170 m² large cemetery served the Jewish community Anröchte already before 1800 as a burial place. The last burial took place in 1997. The 46 gravestones (mazewot) are partly heavily weathered.

The cemetery itself is bordered by a rubble stone wall; numerous poplars provide shade.

Source: Wikipedia

"After the so-called Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the Jüdische community dwindled to 18 people, all of whom were älter and had finished with their lives. The last funeral took place in November 1940, the 90-year-old Julie Abel. After she was buried, the cemetery was closed for good, and the cattleman Julius Steinberg, who died in Lippstadt on January 23, 1942, was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Anröchte without any fuss. Between August 1944 and January 1945, seven Jewish forced laborers from Hungary and Slovakia and one infant died in Lippstadt. They were all thrown in Anröchte into an open mass grave.
After the closure, the SA removed the iron bars of the entrance gate, the örtliche Hitlerjugend removed all other usable metal parts. As a result, about half of the gravestones were destroyed - most of them could not be reconstructed or were replaced by replicas. However, even after the war, the city administration only complied after pressure from a Jewish member of the British Army who was looking for relatives in Lippstadt. In 1946, the cemetery was freed from the potato field and restored.
In 1949 überträgt the representative of the Jüdischen Kultusgemeinde Paderborn-Lippstadt the city of the remaining, unused part of the Jüdischen cemetery, in return, the city should take care of the Jüdischen Gräber, which it does to this day. "

Source: http://www.tenhumbergreinhard.de