In 1830, a plot of land of about 1500 square meters on the town beach, at the "Kilianskammer", on today's street "Am Judenfriedhof", was acquired and the cemetery was established. He also served the Jews of the neighboring villages as a burial ground, today there are 99 tombstones preserved, making it the largest Jewish cemetery in the Schaumburg region.

Postcard from the childhood - youth of Dr. Fritz Feuchtwanger. Here he writes at the age of 15 to his mother Rosa Feuchtwanger from Anvers in Belgium.

The Jewish cemetery of Alpen is located at the Menzelner Strasse in the east of the Ulrichstrasse far outside the village. The place is laid out as a spacious lawn with surrounding hedge.

Occupancy was from 1792 to the year 1936. 56 gravestones are still preserved. Many gravestones were destroyed in the past.

Rosa Feuchtwanger was the wife of Ansom Feuchtwanger, the founder of the banking house Gebrüder Feuchtwanger. The card writer was her son Fritz Feuchtwanger, who, after studying medicine in Strasbourg and Munich, received his medical license in 1914 and was deployed as a military doctor in World War 1. After the end of the war, he settled as a general practitioner and obstetrician in Munich at Dachauer Straße 187. In 1937 he handed over the practice and emigrated to London.