Jewish cemetery (Bracht)

The Bracht Jewish Cemetery is located in Bracht , a district of the municipality of Brüggen in the Viersen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

There are 15 tombstones ( Mazewot ) and five plinths in the Jewish cemetery on Christenfeld in Stiegstrasse . This corresponds to the entry in the central archive of 20 tombs. The funeral ordinance dates to August 1, 1883 and was approved on September 8, 1883. It stipulates that the burial place is 52 meters long and 13.20 meters wide. It is divided into six fields, but the grave number is not mentioned. The distance between the individual graves should be at least 0.30 meters.

Today, the cemetery must be regarded as a completely occupied grave site, as it cannot be determined whether there are no graves in the open areas. From the existing features it can be seen that the last burial took place in 1926/28. The tombstones are deliberately left to weather, as a symbol of human transience.

The cemetery is the last material remnant of the Bracht Jewish community, which has existed since the 18th century. It is important for the history of Bracht.

Web links

• Jewish cemetery Bracht at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Entry on Jewish cemetery at Christenfeld in Bracht (Jewish cemetery on Stiegstrasse) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 4, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 54.7 "  N , 6 ° 10 ′ 35.7"  E