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Jewish cemetery Werther (Westphalia)

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The cemetery is located in the street angle "Bergstra;e" / "Egge" west of the town center of Werther on the eastern slope of the Werther Egge. The approximately 1300 square meters of land had been acquired by the brothers Aron Bendix and Jordan Bendix Weinberg as early as 1889. The former Jewish community of Werther buried their deceased community members in the cemetery from 1895 to 1942. Before that they buried their dead on the old cemetery in Bielefeld and on the cemetery in Halle.

The cemetery of Bigge

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The cemetery, dated 1873, is located at the end of the village next to a  federal road. There are still 25 gravestones. The cemetery was intended for the residents of Bigge. However, Jews from the surrounding villages were also buried.

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