Jewish cemetery (Niederaussem)

The Niederaussem Jewish cemetery was near Niederaussem , a district of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

Today nothing can be seen of the Jewish cemetery . It was occupied from 1850 to 1918. Before that, the dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Bergheim . The burial place in Niederaussem went under in the course of the lignite mining . In 1954 the graves in the Jewish cemetery in Cologne-Bocklemünd were reburied. Eight of the original 18 tombstones ( Mazewot ) are still there today.

Web links

• Jewish cemetery Niederaussem at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/aj/FRIEDHOF/NRW/PROJEKTE/f-nr-hl.htm#K%C3%B6ln-Bocklem%C3%BCnd

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 44.1 ″  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 39.3 ″  E