Jewish cemetery (Bad Münstereifel)

Memorial stone for the deported Jews

The Bad Münstereifel Jewish cemetery is located in the town of Bad Münstereifel in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

In the Jewish cemetery , which was occupied from before 1823 to 1932, there are still 87 tombstones ( mazewot ). The forest cemetery is located in the Quecken Forest . At the beginning of the 1930s, 67 Jews lived in the Münstereifel . There is a memorial stone for the deported Jews in the cemetery .

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The memorial stone commemorates 19 deported Jewish citizens, even if the number of victims was significantly higher. It was donated by Ludwig Kaufmann in 1961 when the cemetery was being restored by the "Alter Münstereifeler Verein".

literature

• Hildegard Wehrmann, The Jewish cemetery in Münstereifel, in: dies., Hermann Pünder (1888-1976): Patriot and Europeans. Essen 2012. p. 481f.
• Hans-Dieter Arntz , Jewish burial sites in the North Eifel - An example: The Jewish forest cemetery of Bad Münstereifel, in: Eifel-Jahrbuch 2015, pp. 53–60, ISBN 978-3-944 620-01-5 [not evaluated]

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bad Münstereifel Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Bad Münstereifel memorial
• The Jewish cemetery of Bad Münstereifel - A review (with photos) - by Hans-Dieter Arntz
• Digital Edition - Bad Münstereifel Jewish Cemetery (1812-1932 / 86 entries): Inv.-No. 0083 at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the cemetery and memorial stone

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '30.3 "  N , 6 ° 46' 2.6"  E