Cemetery

The cemetery is located on a dirt road between Westbüderich and Holtum. It is a small lawn with seven graves and stones.
In 1744 there has been a Jewish cemetery in Büderich. Possibly this cemetery is identical with the present cemetery.
According to the sign at the entrance, the last time a burial took place here was in 1925. However, a gravestone has the year 1991 as the date of death.

The Judensand is one of the ältesten Jüdischen Friedhöfe Europe. A tombstone found there dates to the year 1049 - it is exhibited with permission of the Jüdische Gemeinde Mainz in the Landesmuseum Mainz.
With the banishment of the Jüdinnen*Juden from Mainz in 1438, the cemetery was destroyedürt and partly used as a vineyard. Gravestones were used as building material for buildings in the city.

From about 1700, part of the medieval cemetery area was again used for Jewish burials. It is the lower part, which borders on the Mombacher Stra&szlig.

Near the old city Röbel is said to have been already around the year 1200 a Jewish cemetery. However, reliable data are missing.

As a cemetery in 1700 an area of about 33 square meters on the Mirower Straße, in front of the former city wall, was purchased and some decades later eingezäunt. At the beginning of the 19th century, due to the increasing number of members of the community, the cemetery had to be extended, as the area was no longer sufficient for burials. Records of the burials have not been preserved. The last burial took place in 1937.

The Jüdische cemetery Rimbeck was created in 1875, but probably already occupied since 1870 and then used until 1933.

On the approximately 1,300 m² large cemetery have been buried 65 Jews, including the journalist Felix Fechenbach. Most of the graves date from around 1900, and there is no information about the number of preserved gravestones.

Today it is a monument.