Cemetery

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.

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.

The Jewish cemetery „auf der Löh“ is part of the municipal cemetery of the city of Viersen. It is a 1576 square meter area, separated by Büsche and Bäume, located in the northwestern part of the municipal cemetery. In 1907, this part was transferred to the Jewish community, but the burial ground remained in municipal ownership. In exchange for the land, the Jewish community gave the city free of charge that part of the burial ground on Florastra&szlig, on which no burials had taken place.

The Jewish cemetery of Herbern exists from about 1800 and was occupied until 1927. In the cemetery at the Watervorwinkel 16 gravestones are preserved.

The cemetery experienced many desecrations and destructions during the Nazi period. He was restored after the war.

The Jewish cemetery was inaugurated on 26.06.1881 by Rabbi Willstätter from Karlsruhe. Present were high-ranking representatives of  Grand Ducal and municipal authorities, the Catholic and Protestant city pastor, as well as many residents of Rastatt.

On 19.10.1941, the official order was issued by the Nazi regime, starting from the Rastatt District Office, to close the cemetery. The letter also referred to a decree of the Minister of the Interior.

From Stresemannstraße turn eastward into Pferdebade street, and after the railroad underpass follow its continuation Beuthener Straße. The third street to the right is Kattowitzer Straße, into it you turn, and into the next one again to the right, into Kreuzburger Straße. After a few meters on the right side is the Jewish cemetery.

In the middle of the 19th century, the neo-orthodox direction established itself in Halberstadt - in contrast to the mostly reform-oriented Jewish communities in larger cities. The number of members grew, and thus various reconstruction and new building measures became necessary. This included the establishment of two new cemeteries: first "Am Berge" (1844), directly next to the oldest Jewish burial ground "Am Roten Strumpf" (1644), then in the north of Halberstadt, on the Klein Quenstedter Chaussee.

The cemetery „Am Berge“ is the second, which was established by the Jüdische Gemeinde - immediately north of the cemetery "Am Roten Strumpf". Both are separated only by the access road to the Catholic cemetery. When this second area behind the houses Am Berge 5-9 was leased or acquired for the first time is disputed: 1696 (when with the extension of the old cemetery already the property "Am Berge" was added?) or actually only 1844 (as already described by the community historian Auerbach in 1866).