Old Jewish cemetery Wevelinghoven

The old cemetery of the Jüdische community of Wevelinghoven, which was established before 1800, no longer exists today. Due to its central location in the town center, it had already become an obstacle in the eyes of the town administration in the middle of the 19th century. In 1864, the Jüdische Gemeinde Wevelinghoven planned to repair the dilapidated cemetery wall, which was to be supported by a grant from the city administration. When the community considered an expansion of the cemetery, the city withdrew the financial support, however.

In 1868, a plot of land was purchased instead on the Zehntstraße far outside the town center, on which a new Jewish cemetery was established. This purchase was subsidized by the town council. On the old cemetery at the Oberstraße now no more burials took place.

In 1928, the properties of the Jüdische community Wevelinghoven were sold, since this was strongly shrunk by the departure of some members. In 1936 the municipality of Wevelinghoven took over both Jüdische cemeteries without compensation of value and decreed that the Jüdische municipality should take care of the reburial of the 38 graves remaining in the old cemetery to the new cemetery. Some of the gravestones were actually moved to the new cemetery, but whether the buried were also reburied is unclear.

According to the entry of the new Jewish cemetery in the database Epidat, the old Jewish cemetery was destroyed during the Nazi era. In his book "Aus der Geschichte der Stadt Wevelinghoven" published in 1963 Hermann Baumanns writes that only the two Jewish cemeteries in Wevelinghoven still commemorate the former Jewish community there. After that the cemetery would have continued to exist after 1945. Finally, this circumstance can not be clarified on the basis of the available sources.

Today there are no more gravestones on the property. It is in no way marked as a Jewish cemetery.