Old Jewish Cemetery (Munich)

The Old Jewish Cemetery of Munich is located in the Sendling district and was in use from 1816 to 1907. This cemetery was expanded in 1854, 1871 and 1881. It is surrounded by a high brick wall, which was rebuilt again in 1881 and has a length of 575 meters. In total there are about 6,000 gravestones. Worth seeing is, among others, the tomb of the playwright Michael Beer (d. 1833, brother of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer), designed by L. v. Klenze. The first occupied sections of the cemetery have the numbers 11 and 12. In the area of 11 also stood since 1816 a first cemetery hall, which is no longer preserved and was replaced in 1882 by a new building.