New Jewish cemetery Luxemburg Limpertsberg

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View over the cemetery

The 73 hectare new Jewish cemetery or Le cimetière Bellevue is located in Luxembourg 's Limpertsberg district on Rue des Cerisiers. After the cemetery in Clausen was fully occupied, the new cemetery was laid out in 1883. The first burial took place in 1884. Over the years the cemetery has been expanded several times and is still in use today. It is the largest Jewish cemetery in Luxembourg .

The cemetery is surrounded by a wall and a hornbeam hedge. The main path is formed by an avenue of plane trees, the areas are planted with birch trees. He has a cemetery hall.

In 1961 the cemetery and its maintenance were taken over by the city administration.

In the cemetery is the grave of the Oppenheim family with a plaque for the painter Guido Oppenheim, who died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp .

  • Grave and memorial of the Oppenheim family

  • Grave of Dory Oppenheim and wife

  • "broken trees"

  • Memorial for the deportees

  • Memorial graves of the deportees

  • The cemetery hall

Web links

Commons : New Jewish Cemetery Luxembourg Limpertsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bellevue Jewish Cemetery (New Jewish cemetery)
  2. ↑ Limpertsberg Jewish Cemetery

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '18.3 "  N , 6 ° 7' 37.5"  E