Cemetery

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.

The old Jewish cemetery existed since 1788. It was dissolved in 1938, because it had been occupied for a long time. The new cemetery next to the Christian municipal cemetery survived the time until today relatively unscathed. Today there are still 106 gravestones here.

The cemetery was located in front of the new gate at the time of its foundation. There are 57 gravestones on the site. The oldest dates from 1844, the youngest from 1937. In 1940, there were still 2 burials. Gravestones were not allowed to be placed at that time.

The cemetery at the Dansenberg was occupied for the first time in 1809. Today it has 50 gravestones.

The cemetery is located at the corner of Schermbecker Straße / Westerholten.

From 1842 the members of the Cahn family were buried here. As the eleventh and last were buried here in 1933 Levi Cahn.

The cemetery was not desecrated during the Nazi period. In 1961, the cemetery was accidentally rediscovered during an inventory. The municipality bought the plot from the heirs of the Cahn family in 1963 and has maintained the cemetery ever since.

You can see four gravesites, all without stone. In the center, a plaque commemorates the Cahn family.

The first Jewish cemetery was located at the Wetzmühle in Holthausen. It is not preserved.

Since 1777 the cemetery exists in the city center at the Gracht. Possibly (according to Brocke) burials took place here already from 1730. The cemetery  was expanded several times, because Duisburg Jews were also buried here. A mourning hall was added in 1920. A memorial commemorates the murdered Jews today.

The cemetery is still used today

Until around the year 1900, the Jews from the northern districts of Duisburg used the cemetery in Holten. Then two own cemeteries were created: The cemetery at the Mattlerstrasse and at the Möhlenkampstrasse.

The initially used cemetery at the Möhlenkampstrasse on the Südfriedhof was abandoned because of the subsidence by mining and the associated Überflurungen. One buried then from 1924 at the Mattlerstrasse.
Tombstones are not preserved at the Möhlenkampstrasse.  This cemetery was occupied from 1911 to 1929.

The cemetery on Königstrasse is probably the oldest Duisburg cemetery. He was created in the Middle Ages at the gates of the city on the Christian cemetery. Buried here was from 1823 to 1881. Then the cemetery was closed by the city.

In 1908, the cemetery was built over when the Duisburg city center was redesigned. Several graves were moved to the cemetery on Sternbuschweg.

Today the cemetery is located under a driveway to an underground car park.

The first cemeteries were located in Meiderich and in the city center. Then the cemetery at Sternbuschweg was used, from 1923 the forest cemetery at Düsseldorfer Strasse. It was used for normal burials until 1940, then for urn burials of concentration camp victims. Since 1981 it has been used by the Jewish community of Duisburg.

The cemetery in Duisburg Beek at the Friedhofstrasse was first occupied in 1893. In 1939 the last normal burial was carried out. After that urns of people who were murdered in concentration camps were buried. Today there are still 49 gravestones.