Jewish cemetery Frauenberger Strasse (Euskirchen)
The new Jewish cemetery Euskirchen is located on Frauenberger Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 51 ) in the district town of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia .
In the Jewish cemetery , which was occupied from 1913 to 1975, there are still 45 tombstones ( mazewot ). They are all oriented towards Jerusalem , i.e. to the east. The writing plates on several gravestones have been destroyed. The last person to be buried was Alfred Julich, who died on September 28, 1975.
The burial place is delimited towards the front with a wall and a wrought iron gate, which is open. The other sides are surrounded by a wire fence. It is 25.4 ares tall.
Some gravestones from the former Kölner Strasse cemetery have been placed in the cemetery . Until 1938 it was in the place of today's district court .
Web links
- Jüdischer Friedhof Euskirchen (Neuer Friedhof) at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- The cemetery on www.hans-dieter-arntz.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 15.3 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 16 ″ E