Memorial to the Victims of National Socialist Tyranny

On a beautifully landscaped memorial park, the former Jacobi cemetery contains numerous monuments from the 1st and 2nd World War. The most eye-catching and also something to make you silent is the monument added in 1993 by Jörg Heydemann from Billerbeck for the persecuted and victims of National Socialism. the memorial consists of a railway line leading to a stylized ramp - symbolic of the route of the victims to the death camps. A woman stands on the slope and holds her child tightly in her arms.

Furthermore, a monument to the fallen of the First World War. The monument was made in 1928 by professor Josef Enseling from Coesfeld. A reclining soldier with a helmet appears to be lying in state on a table. In the round enclosing wall the names of the fallen.

In addition, this cemetery, which has been converted into a memorial, contains 35 war graves with soldiers from the First World War, including a Russian and a number of family graves.

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• Text: Bjorn van Marle
• Photos: Bjorn van Marle