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LICHTENAU: Paderborn district

33165 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz, Peters).

Old Cemetery: Located once outside the city walls in the Glockenstrasse. Used 17th century to about 1772. Visible gravestones: None. The old burial ground was sold in 1920 by the Jewish community to individuals. In the 1930's some of the still existing gravestones were moved to the new cemetery, where they are now nowhere to be found. [Sep 2012]
- history in splendor 1998, p 462nd

New Cemetery: Located Simon-Archenhold-strasse (hall 6, No. 538). Used 1772-1938. Visible gravestones: 45. [Sep 2012]