Jewish cemetery in Bochum
The Bochum Jewish Cemetery is located on the Wasserstraße in the Wiemelhausen district of Bochum . The first burials in this Jewish cemetery took place in 1918.
The brick mourning hall was built in 1917. The cemetery with its grave fields, fountain and mourning hall was registered in 2001 as a monument under the number 529.
52 graves belong to victims of forced labor in Bochum and Wattenscheid , 2 urns belong to victims from the Oranienburg and Dachau concentration camps .
Graves were reburied here in 1954 when two Jewish cemeteries on Friedhofstrasse / Wittener Strasse in Bochum were abandoned because of the new construction of Bochum's main train station .
See also
Web links
Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Wiemelhausen - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '42.9 " N , 7 ° 13' 28.7" E