Jewish cemetery (Brühl)

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The Jewish cemetery Brühl is located in the city of Brühl in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The cemetery was first mentioned in 1371, but it can be assumed that it is much older. The existence of a Jewish community has already been proven when Brühl became a town in 1285. The cemetery was occupied until 1939. Today there are 94 tombstones ( Mazewot ) on the 4,170 m² site. The oldest gravestone dates from 1746.

The synagogue community of Brühl was re-established in 1875 after the establishment of the German Empire . It initially consisted of the special communities Brühl and Hürth . In 1879 there were 146 inhabitants of the Jewish faith in the city of Brühl. The cemetery is one of the oldest and largest in terms of area in the Cologne administrative district .

The intersection next to the cemetery was renamed Leopold-Bähr-Platz "on behalf of all persecuted and murdered Jewish fellow citizens of Brühl" .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Brühl)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main State Archives Düsseldorf, Best. Reg. Cologne, special files concerning the organization of the Synagogengem. in the district of Cologne, quoted from Lothar and Maria Sterck: History of a half-timbered house in Alt-Hürth , Hürther Heimat, vol. 6, p. 64
  2. ↑ According to the notes of the dean Berrisch, then in the parish archives. Quoted from Rosellen: History of the parishes of the dean's office in Brühl , Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1887, p. 101

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 59.8 "  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 23.7"  E