Jewish cemetery Cologne-Mülheim

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The Jewish cemetery in Cologne-Mülheim is a Jewish cemetery in the former city of Mülheim am Rhein , which has been a district of Cologne ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) since 1914 .

history

The Jewish cemetery in Cologne-Mülheim, which was laid out in 1774, still exists today. It is located west of the Neurather Ring on the railroad tracks from Cologne-Mülheim to Leverkusen-Opladen. Since 1864, the small Mülheim Jewish community also included the mayorships of Merheim , Bergisch Gladbach , Bensberg , Odenthal and Overath . In 1929 she was accepted into the Cologne synagogue community . The size of the Mülheim community was 174 in 1885 and around 200 in 1930. After the old Mülheim synagogue was destroyed in 1784 by the ice flowing in the Rhine , a new building was consecrated in 1788. Destroyed during the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, its ruins were torn down in 1956.

literature

  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Cologne district (=  contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland . Volume 34.1 ). Cologne 1997, p. 259-260, 290-291 .
  • Ursula Reuter: Jewish communities from the early 19th to the beginning of the 21st century (=  Historical Atlas of the Rhineland . Volume VIII.8 ). Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7749-3524-2 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 1 ″  E