Former synagogue Wevelinghoven

In the available literature there are references to the existence of Betsälen before the 19th century. Here, however, neither a more precise chronological classification nor a localization is possible. In 1818 the synagogue was established in the rear building of Burgstra&szlig 31. In the course of the 19th century, the number of Jewish residents in Wevelinghoven remained constant. After the anti-Jewish riots in the wake of the so-called Xanten ritual murder affair in 1892, however, some members moved to the surrounding larger towns, so that the community began to shrink. In 1912 Ludwig Marx was the head of the congregation. After the end of the First World War, the congregation was so small that no minyan could be established. In 1921, therefore, the synagogue building was auctioned off in a restaurant. The new owners demolished the building after the end of the Second World War and built a residential house in its place. In the early 2000s, Helmut Coenen, together with fellow activists, installed a mosaic with a menorah on the sidewalk in front of the property. An information board mounted on a house wall near the mosaic had to be removed after persistent hostility and harassment.