Jewish cemetery (Geistingen)
The Jewish cemetery in Geistingen , a district of Hennef (Sieg) in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), is a 1,120 square meter cemetery before the Shoa existing Jewish community . It is located on Hermann-Levy-Strasse and is a listed building . The first occupation took place in 1860, the last burial in 1978. A total of 56 tombstones ( Mazewot ) still stand in the cemetery today .
The site is accessible during the day. According to the cemetery statutes, the facility is maintained by the city of Hennef.
literature
- Dan Bondy: The tombstones and their inscriptions . In: Bet Olam - House of Eternity. The Jewish cemetery in Hennef-Geistingen , ed. by Gisela Rupprath (Evidence of Jewish Culture in the Rhein-Sieg District, Vol. 4), pp. 74–140, Siegburg 2006. ISBN 3-938535-23-7
Web links
- Digital edition: Jewish cemetery Hennef-Geistingen (1886−1971 / 54 inscriptions) of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
- Jewish cemetery Hennef-Geistingen on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cemetery statutes of the city of Hennef from 2005, p. 13 (Word file) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 7.6 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 1.9 ″ E