The Jewish cemetery of Hamm-Heessen is located at the Kleiststrasse.
The first mention is in 1822, but the cemetery is probably much older. The last burial took place in 1889.

In 1944, this cemetery was totally destroyed in a bombing raid. Only a bomb crater and an old oak tree remind of this cemetery.

Until 1956 the plot still appeared in the cadastral maps. In 1985 the site was ünde built over.

The 392 m² large plot was purchased in 1845 by Cusel Bernstein and Feist Nathan Neufeld. The still existing 15 gravestones document an occupation period from 1844 to 1935. It is unlikely that the gravestones correspond to the real graves. At the left edge there is a grave field of Russian foreign workers who found their last rest there between 1941 and 1945. To the right is the memorial slab for the 4 women who were hanged in October 1944 in the Auschwitz subcamp (Union Weichsel). They smuggled grams of explosives.

On 15.12.1845 the Jewish community acquired a 192 square meter property from the farmer Anton Grasmann. The royal government in Arnsberg granted the permission for use on 20.03.1846. Since the cemetery was soon occupied it was closed at the beginning of the 20th century. Probably Moses Mendel who died on 04.01.1907 was the last one to be buried here.

According to the death registers Castrop died from 1844 to 1873 in Deusen, Bodelschwing and Mengede 21 people.

After training as a commercial apprentice in Sankt Gallen, Otto Landauer, born Nathan Landauer (1842 in Hürben - 1913 in Munich) opened a button, ribbon and trimmings shop in Munich in 1878, which he later converted into a ladies' fashion store. In 1889, Otto Landauer Damenmoden moved into a newly built business premises at Kaufingerstraße 28. In 1904 and 1906, Landauer acquired the neighboring properties and expanded his salesrooms. In 1909, Otto Landauer became a Bavarian Councillor of Commerce and in 1912 a Royal Bavarian Court Purveyor.

On 14.12.1885 the community bought a 1852 sqm plot of land from the farmer Schween gnt. Schulte to Groppenbruch, because the previous cemetery was occupied. The dedication of the cemetery took place in 1886. The last burial in this cemetery took place in 1952. 16 graves from this cemetery have been preserved today.

In 1959 6 graves were transferred here from the previous cemetery in Nette. A memorial stone reminds of this.