New Jewish cemetery (Brüggen)

The New Jewish Cemetery Brüggen is located in the central part of the municipality of Brüggen in the district of Viersen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

There are still five tombstones ( mazewot ) in the Jewish cemetery on Herrenlandstrasse . The funeral order is dated September 8, 1885. The occupancy plan provided for two corpse fields, each set up in two rows of twelve graves. The fields are separated by a middle path that runs exactly in a north-south direction.

The last burial can be traced back to 1930. The reclamation of the grave sites is excluded. The tombstones are deliberately left to weather, as a symbol of human transience. The cemetery is one of the last material remains of the Brüggen Jewish community, which has existed since the 18th century.

The predecessor of the cemetery is the Old Jewish Cemetery on Hochstrasse.

Web links

• Brüggen Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
• Entry on the Jewish cemetery on Herrenlandstrasse in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 58.2 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 2.9 ″  E