Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Havixbeck is located in the municipality Havixbeck in the district of Coesfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. As Jewish cemetery it is a monument and registered under monument number 61 in the list of monuments 

There are 15 gravestones preserved in the cemetery on Schützenstraße between house No. 41 and the sports field. It was occupied from 1825 to 1928.

The Israelite synagogue community Adass Yisroel, Berlin was founded in 1869. The reason was the increasing social and ideological assimilation of large parts of the Jewish community. This community, for all its open-mindedness, attached great importance to a law-abiding life and the preservation of Jewish tradition. The splendid design of the new synagogue in Oranienburger Street was a point of contention, and when an organ was also built in, many believers felt that this was a break with Jewish tradition. This led to the secession and the founding of Adass Yisroel.

The old Jewish cemetery was used to bury the deceased of the Diez Jewish community from the end of the 17th century until 1895. From this year it was no longer used for burials, as it had reached its maximum capacity. It is no longer possible to determine how many graves were on it. Given the long period of its existence, there must have been a great many. In 1895, the Jewish community purchased the land for a new cemetery on the opposite Guckenberg.