Cemetery

In the available sources there are no references to the exact date of the foundation of the old Jüdische cemetery in Hülchrath. A cadastral map from 1811 describes the plot as "Old Jüden Kirchhof". Due to the high groundwater level, the land was repeatedly flooded. 1900 at the end of today's Jahnstraße the new Jüdische cemetery was created, on which 1907 the first burial took place.

Already before 1526 there was a Jewish cemetery in Hemmerden. The plot was donated to the community by the sovereign Elisabeth zu Salm-Dyck. When all Jewish inhabitants had to leave the village in that year, the cemetery was abandoned. The old Jewish cemetery of Hemmerden was located at the Stesser Mühle. The land was returned to the original owners in 1826. Schulte gives 1827 as the year of foundation of the new, still existing Jewish cemetery. The database Epidat as well as Pracht-Jürns mention 1813 as another possible year of foundation.

The old cemetery of the Jüdische community of Wevelinghoven, which was established before 1800, no longer exists today. Due to its central location in the town center, it had already become an obstacle in the eyes of the town administration in the middle of the 19th century. In 1864, the Jüdische Gemeinde Wevelinghoven planned to repair the dilapidated cemetery wall, which was to be supported by a grant from the city administration. When the community considered an expansion of the cemetery, the city withdrew the financial support, however.

The Jewish cemetery in Wevelinghoven is located at the Zehntstraße opposite the driveway L142. The plot was acquired in 1868 by the Jewish community in Wevelinghoven, after the old Jewish cemetery on today's Oberstrasse had become an obstacle in the eyes of the town council due to its dilapidated wall and its central location in the town. The purchase of the land, which was located far outside the village, was therefore subsidized by the city. A destruction of the cemetery in October 1930 is documented, the perpetrators remain unknown.

The last burial took place in 1934 or 1935, 1938 the cemetery was partially verwüstet, 1940 took place the forced sale.

It should still be about. 25 gravestones are preserved, probably sämtlich in the rear third of the long and narrow Grundstückss, through the closed entrance gate are only about 5 of them to be made out.

Location:

On the company property of the merchant Salomon was also created in 1880 a cemetery. which was devastated in 1938. The undestroyed 24 gravestones from there were placed in 1961 in the municipal cemetery in Bismarcker Straße.

Coming from the parking lot on Bismarker Street, you pass a house in the cemetery and turn right in front of the chapel. After a grave field for fallen of the I. World War and the grave of Otto Reuter lies on the left of the way the field with the Jewish gravestones, next to it graves of Cussian prisoners of war 1914/18.

If one enters the cemetery, one finds immediately behind the entrance a large information board with the most important data:

According to the council minutes of the city of Werne from November 1698, further local “vergleitete”*) Jews were buried on the Schüttenwall. The youngest burial took place secretly on 17.07.1942, since at that time a public burial on a Jewish cemetery was forbidden.

Today there are 37 graves and 35 gravestones on the cemetery grounds.