<p>The cemetery Heiliger Sand is the oldest Jewish cemetery preserved in situ in Europe. The oldest gravestones date back to the 11th century. The cemetery survived medieval expulsions and pogroms as well as the Shoah - not always entirely unscathed, but without extensive damage and clearances, so that around 2,500 stones bear witness to the history of the community.</p><p>The cemetery consists of an Old and a New part, which was occupied from the end of the 17th century.

The Jewish cemetery in St. Wendel was established just a few years after the settlement of the first Jewish families (1862) in 1871 outside the city in Urweiler. The city of St. Wendel took over the costs for the enclosure. About 50 burials were made in the cemetery until 1940.