Jewish cemetery (Würselen-Morsbach)

The Jewish cemetery in Morsbach ( Würselen ), 2013

Gravestone Daniel Mayer, Würselen Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Würselen-Morsbach is located in the Morsbach district of the city of Würselen in the city region of Aachen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and was established in 1857 and occupied until 1939. The cemetery is located west of Würselen above the Wurmtal between Waldstrasse and Steingasse and served Jews from Würselen, Herzogenrath , Kohlscheid and Bardenberg as a burial place.

After the cemetery was devastated by the National Socialists in 1939 , most of the gravestones were erected and repaired in 1946. In 1977 he was again violated by vandals from the area. With the help of voluntary actions and the green space office, the cemetery could be restored to some extent. There are still 22 tombstones ( mazewot ) left.

The cemetery is one of the architectural monuments of the city of Würselen (No. 94).

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Würselen-Morsbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Heike Eisenmenger: Young French bring order to chaos , report on the condition of the Jewish cemetery in Morsbach; in: Aachener Zeitung from August 12, 2005
A gem in Morsbach , in: Super Wednesday of February 27, 2013

literature

Spilled tracks. Jewish fellow citizens in Würselen 1933-1942, examinations of class 0 III b of the municipal high school in Würselen . Typewritten, completed in 1989. On the cemetery cf. P. 39ff.

Individual evidence

50.831833333333 6.1156138888889Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 54.6 ″ N , 6 ° 6 ′ 56.2 ″ E

[1] ttp://www.euregio-im-bild.de/fotos/juden-juedisch-wurmtal_IMG_9539.html

[2] Morsbach Jewish Cemetery at the Central Archives for research into the history of Jews in Germany