Cemetery

The cemetery was established at the instigation of the then Rabbi Elias Grünebaum. In the Middle Ages there had already been a cemetery, but it is no longer known where it was located. In the meantime, the Jews of Landau were mostly buried in Essingen near Landau. More than 800 Landau Jews are buried in the cemetery. There is an older part and a newer one. During the Nazi regime the Jewish communities were forced to sell their cemeteries to the respective municipality.

Alsenz is a small town in the Donnersbergkreis between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach.

From 1650 individual Jews settled in the village. In the middle of the 19th century, the community reached a strength of one hundred people. Due to rural exodus and moving to the cities, the number of Jews constantly decreased. At the time of National Socialism, only individual residents were left in the village.

In the village there was a synagogue with mikvah and school, in front of the village there was a cemetery.

The Jewish cemetery in Stralsund was acquired by the Stralsund synagogue community in 1850 and expanded in 1912. During the National Socialist regime, the Jewish community was forced to sell the cemetery to the city in the early 1940s. Until today, the cemetery remained intact. In 1956 it was transformed into a memorial site. In this process the gravestones were moved, as  it is still visible today. On 19.08.1997 the state association of the Jewish community of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern took over the cemetery. The last renovation took place between 2000 and 2008.

Hanover's Jewish community had grown considerably since the beginning of legal equality in 1842. Since the historical cemetery was no longer sufficient, it acquired a plot of land in the garden area far outside the city, today located in the middle of Hanover's Nordstadt. The new cemetery was solemnly consecrated in 1864. Its buildings on the street side - sermon hall, administration, mortuary and prayer hall - followed designs by the Jewish architect Edwin Oppler, who also built Hanover's New Synagogue at almost the same time.

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.