Jüdischer Friedhof

The Jüdischer Friedhof Herford is a cemetery with historic gravestones arranged across grounds next to the Old Cemetery on Friedhofstraße. The site holds burials spanning centuries and includes a brick mourning hall built in Romanesque style.

The cemetery was established in 1647 after the Jewish community was founded, and it received its final expansion in 1908 with a new mourning hall. Many stones disappeared during World War II but were later restored.

The gravestones show inscriptions and decorative carvings that reflect how Jewish families commemorated their dead from the 1600s onward. Walking among them, you see the personal details people chose to remember.

The cemetery is located on Friedhofstraße and has protected status as an architectural monument, so visitors should approach it with respect and quiet. The grounds are easy to walk through and require no special preparation.

After the war, the gravestones were returned to their original location in 1960 and today offer a rare record of Jewish gravestone art from centuries past. For those researching family history, the inscriptions contain valuable genealogical information.