Jewish cemetery (Geilenkirchen)

Jewish cemetery in Geilenkirchen

The Geilenkirchen Jewish Cemetery is located in Geilenkirchen in the Heinsberg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and is on the corner of Heinsberger Strasse and An der Linde.

In the Jewish cemetery , which was occupied from before 1823 to 1937, 118 tombstones ( Mazewot ) are still present and recorded in the epigraphic database epidat of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute and accessible online.

The burial site was desecrated three times in the 1960s. On December 30, 2019, perpetrators knocked over more than 40 gravestones in the cemetery in Geilenkirchen and sprayed some with blue paint. Two suspects known to the police, aged 21 and 33, were provisionally arrested.

literature

Hermann Wassen: The seven-armed candlestick. The history of the Geilenkirchen Jews . In: Local calendar of the Heinsberg district 1985

Web links

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

• epidat
• Jewish cemetery Geilenkirchen at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Monument description

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jewish cemetery desecrated , Jüdische Allgemeine, December 31, 2019. Accessed December 31, 2019.

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '9.5 "  N , 6 ° 7' 8.8"  E