Cemetery

The Old Jewish Cemetery in the Nordstadt, not far from the Christuskirche, offers an astonishing picture: a hill in the middle of the residential area, on it hundreds of old gravestones under tall trees, a walled island of the dead.

The Jewish cemetery "am Judenknapp" existed around 1800, only from 1824 death registers were kept.

He was probably founded around 1750. The last burial took place in 1939. At that time  Miriam Ruhstädt was buried on the Judenknapp, but was no longer allowed to have a gravestone.

The cemetery is located on Moosspringstrasse directly behind the entrance to the old paper mill at the edge of the forest. 

Before the 19th century, no cemetery was available to the Jews in Aachen. They buried their dead in nearby Düren or Vaals.

In 1829, the first burial took place in the field in front of the Liège Gate. The mourning hall and the residential building for the cemetery administrator were built around 1890. The cemetery is well preserved. It was desecrated in 1991, garb stones were knocked over. On the area today stand about 800 gravestones, a field is divided off for new burials.

In 1928, the "New Cemetery" was inaugurated after years of planning and the construction of a large ceremonial hall with a huge concrete dome. It is located in the district of Eutrizsch. In 1938 the hall was set on fire, a year later it was blown up. In 1955, they built a new hall, but it was much smaller than the old structure.

The oldest cemetery, which no longer exists today, was founded in 1814 south of the present city center in Johannistal. He is today built over by clinics of the University of Leipzig. This cemetery existed until 1864 and was dissolved in 1936 by order of the municipality. The bones and some of the gravestones were moved to the cemetery on Delitzscher Straße.

Hüls, a district of Aachen, had and has no Jewish community. Since 2007, there is a cemetery next to the Christian cemetery, which serves the current burials.

From 1820 there were individual Jews in Haaren. Although the community strove for independence, the construction of a synagogue was refused. Even for the establishment of a prayer room it was not enough because of the small number of Jews.

From 1798, the first Jews are recorded in Eilendorf. They had a small private prayer room and from 1885 their own cemetery.

The cemetery was inaugurated in 1885 and last occupied in 1935. Today there are still 16 gravestones on the site. They are mostly no longer legible.

On the history of the small Jewish community of Jáchymov - with the historical designation 'synagogue community Alt-Grimnitz' - very little information is available.