Jewish cemetery (Bassenheim)

Jewish cemetery in Bassenheim

Jewish cemetery in Bassenheim

The Jewish cemetery Bassenheim is a Jewish cemetery in Bassenheim , a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). The cemetery is located in the middle of a new development area on Im Sässel . The Jewish cemetery is a monument worth protecting .

history

The Jewish community in Bassenheim laid out its own cemetery around 1800. The last burial of the Jewish community in the 13.61 ares large cemetery was in 1942. From 1942 to 1945 the forced laborers from Poland and Russia who perished in the Eiserne Hand camp were buried in the cemetery. Today there are 29 tombstones ( mazewot ).

literature

• Bassenheim. In: Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ).

Web links

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

• Information on the Jewish cemetery in Bassenheim at Alemannia Judaica
• Information on the Jewish cemetery Bassenheim in the list of Jewish cemeteries in Rhineland-Palatinate of the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 50 ″  E