Obj. ID: 52148
Jewish Funerary Art Site of the Jewish cemetery in Bartoszyce, Poland
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish cemetery of Bartoszyce is demolished and partly overbuilt by road Kętrzyńska (formerly Rastemborska Street/Rastenburgerstraße). Most part of the former cemetery area is a non-overbuilt overgrown meadow. No tombstones have survived. ESJF field team has discovered remains of concrete foundations of the presumable cemetery wall (in the east and south parts of the border).
Perimeter length: 153 metres
The local cemetery was established around 1820 on a low hill, it had an area of about 0.15 ha. The above-ground part of the cemetery was removed at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s [Szczepański].
The former cemetery is a field (about 0,15 ha) which adjoins shop Media Expert from south-east and is opposite to municipal cemetery.
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Poland | Warmińsko-mazurskie Voivodeship | Bartoszyce
| Kętrzyńska Street
Szczepański, Seweryn, "Żydowskie domy modlitwy oraz cmentarze na Warmii i Mazurach – stan obecny," 2017