Jewish cemetery (Mehlem)

Jewish cemetery in Mehlem

Gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Mehlem

The Mehlem Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Mehlem , a district of Bonn ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The cemetery is located between Oberaustrasse and Rodderbergstrasse and can be reached via Levyweg. The cemetery stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The Jews in Mehlem belonged to the Godesberg synagogue community. However, they tried to maintain a certain independence, also by building their own synagogue in 1875 and their own Jewish cemetery in 1868.

Community member Gottfried Levy gave the Jewish community the steeply sloping property in 1868, which is now in the middle of a residential area. The cemetery has an area of ​​1250 m² and today there are still about 43 tombstones ( mazewot ) or fragments of tombstones. The cemetery was occupied until 1941.

literature

• Harald Uhl : The Jewish cemetery in Mehlem . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 48/2010, Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV , pp. 5–28. [not yet evaluated for this article]
• Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Cologne district . Cologne 1997, p. 488 (Contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, Vol. 34.1), ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 .

Web links

Commons : Mehlem Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images

• Mehlem Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 43, number A 2140

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 18.8 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 24.4"  E