Jewish cemetery (Kirchheim)
The Jewish cemetery Kirchheim is a Jewish cemetery in Kirchheim , a district of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia . It lies between Kirchheim and Flamersheim on the left between fields. The Flamersheim Jewish cemetery is only a few hundred meters away. The cemetery has been on the list of monuments of the city of Euskirchen since 1988 .
history
The Jewish cemetery in Kirchheim was laid out in 1790 and expanded in 1856. It is 1167 m². The last burial took place in 1907. Today there are seven tombstones ( mazewot ).
The cemetery was devastated during and after the National Socialism . After the closure in 1907, the few Jews still living in Kirchheim buried their dead in Flamersheim.
literature
- Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Cologne district . Cologne 1997, pp. 351–352 (articles on architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.1), ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 .
Web links
- Jewish cemetery in Kirchheim at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- Hans-Dieter Arntz : The Jewish burial places of the district town of Euskirchen
- Entry on the Jewish cemetery in the Mohrenweide in Kirchheim in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
Arloff | Bad Münstereifel | Bad Münstereifel (Hardtwald) | Bleibuir | Blumenthal | Euskirchen (Old Cemetery) | Euskirchen (New Cemetery) | Euskirchen (Kölner Strasse) | Firmenich | Flamersheim | Gemünd | Großbüllesheim | Harzheim | Kall | Kirchheim | Kirspenich | Kommern | Kuchenheim | Lommersum | Mechernich | Reifferscheid | Schleiden | Schweinheim | Sinzenich | Wißkirchen | Zülpich
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '53.7 " N , 6 ° 50' 12.8" E