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WALTROP: City Waltrop, Recklinghausen

45731 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz, Peters)
Alte Grabstätten in Waltrop in Verstischer Kalender(1950). Source: Angelika Ellmann-Krüger.


OLD CEMETERY:
Located Hilberstrasse, opposite the fire station. Used 1822-1906. Visible gravestones: None. 1937  Joseph Grewe (d. 1954) received 17 inscriptions ( Handbook 2008, p 723). By 1873, 19 burials were recorded. From 1912 and 1932 gradually gravestones were removed. [Please help with a better translation: Bereits zwischen1912 und 1932 sind nach und nach Visible gravestones: entfernt worden] [Sep 2012]
- 1980-1985 by Werner Schneider (Assignment List)
- Assignment List in 1979 Marbach
- History in Schneider 1983, page 140
- Assignment list, history in Schneider 1985, pp. 21 -22, Part B.
- History in Westphalia-Lippe 1987, page 119

- History in Handbook 2008, p 723

 

NEW CEMETERY: Located Schützenstrasse at the municipal cemetery, opposite the chapel entrance. Also mentioned as Jewish graves on the new municipal cemetery on Friedhofstr. Used 1907-1938. Visible gravestones: 6 [Sep 2012]
- 1980-1985 by Werner Schneider (Assignment List)
- 2002 by Mike Redel (copy, German inscriptions)
- History in Schneider 1983, page 140
- Assignment list, history in Schneider 1985, pp. 21 -22, Part B.
- History in Westphalia-Lippe 1987, page 119