Königsfeld Jewish cemetery
The Königsfeld Jewish cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Königsfeld in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is a protected cultural monument .
The Jewish community of Königsfeld had the cemetery laid out before 1838. The exact date is not known. The oldest surviving tombstone dates from 1838, the last burial took place in 1942. This was Gertrud Borg née Baer (1857–1942), the stone was set after 1945. The cemetery is on the western edge of the forest between the Königsbach and the path to Vehn . In the 1960s, the community separated about 600 m² from the original 3681 m² cemetery. Today 21 tombstones are still preserved, 17 of which bear the name Gottschalk.
The cemetery remained almost undamaged during the National Socialist era .
literature
- Karl Heinz Kurth: Königsfeld, Dedenbach and Schalkenbach . In: Hans Warnecke (Hrsg.): Evidence of Jewish life in the Ahrweiler district . ARE-Buchhandlung, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1998, ISBN 3-929154-23-4 , pp. 74-87.
Web links
- Königsfeld Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Königsfeld Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
Ahrweiler | Bad Breisig | Bad Neuenahr | Dernau | Gelsdorf | Koenigsfeld | Niederzissen | Remagen | Rheineck | Sinzig
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '9.7 " N , 7 ° 10' 38.3" E