Cemetery

On 14.12.1885 the community bought a 1852 sqm plot of land from the farmer Schween gnt. Schulte to Groppenbruch, because the previous cemetery was occupied. The dedication of the cemetery took place in 1886. The last burial in this cemetery took place in 1952. 16 graves from this cemetery have been preserved today.

In 1959 6 graves were transferred here from the previous cemetery in Nette. A memorial stone reminds of this.

The Jewish cemetery „auf der Löh“ is part of the municipal cemetery of the city of Viersen. It is a 1576 square meter area, separated by Büsche and Bäume, located in the northwestern part of the municipal cemetery. In 1907, this part was transferred to the Jewish community, but the burial ground remained in municipal ownership. In exchange for the land, the Jewish community gave the city free of charge that part of the burial ground on Florastra&szlig, on which no burials had taken place.

The Jewish cemetery of Herbern exists from about 1800 and was occupied until 1927. In the cemetery at the Watervorwinkel 16 gravestones are preserved.

The cemetery experienced many desecrations and destructions during the Nazi period. He was restored after the war.

The Jewish cemetery was inaugurated on 26.06.1881 by Rabbi Willstätter from Karlsruhe. Present were high-ranking representatives of  Grand Ducal and municipal authorities, the Catholic and Protestant city pastor, as well as many residents of Rastatt.

On 19.10.1941, the official order was issued by the Nazi regime, starting from the Rastatt District Office, to close the cemetery. The letter also referred to a decree of the Minister of the Interior.

From Stresemannstraße turn eastward into Pferdebade street, and after the railroad underpass follow its continuation Beuthener Straße. The third street to the right is Kattowitzer Straße, into it you turn, and into the next one again to the right, into Kreuzburger Straße. After a few meters on the right side is the Jewish cemetery.

In the middle of the 19th century, the neo-orthodox direction established itself in Halberstadt - in contrast to the mostly reform-oriented Jewish communities in larger cities. The number of members grew, and thus various reconstruction and new building measures became necessary. This included the establishment of two new cemeteries: first "Am Berge" (1844), directly next to the oldest Jewish burial ground "Am Roten Strumpf" (1644), then in the north of Halberstadt, on the Klein Quenstedter Chaussee.

The cemetery „Am Berge“ is the second, which was established by the Jüdische Gemeinde - immediately north of the cemetery "Am Roten Strumpf". Both are separated only by the access road to the Catholic cemetery. When this second area behind the houses Am Berge 5-9 was leased or acquired for the first time is disputed: 1696 (when with the extension of the old cemetery already the property "Am Berge" was added?) or actually only 1844 (as already described by the community historian Auerbach in 1866).

The cemetery "Am Roten Strumpf" is the oldest of three burial grounds of the Jewish community of Halberstadt. In 1644, still under episcopal protection, it could be established southwest of the Johannistor (at today's intersection Sternstraße / Westendorf). Before that, the dead had to be buried elsewhere (in Derenburg and Aschersleben?). The small, square area had been leased from the St. Johannis monastery. The name of the field refers to an earlier execution site. According to this, the executioner put on a red stocking to avoid being recognized.

At present, the old Jewish cemetery in ul.Kalinowszczyzna covers an area of about 1 hectare. Of the 3,000 gravestones, which were densely arranged over the entire area of the hill, only about 60 have survived to this day. However, there are still many gravestones of people who were particularly meritorious for the Jewish community in Lublin. The Matzewa of the learned Talmudist Jaakov Kopelman, who died in 1541, is the oldest Jewish tombstone in Poland and stands in its original place.