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Jewish cemetery (Sayn)

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The Jewish cemetery in Sayn, a district of the city of Bendorf in the administrative district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, was established after 1723. The Jewish cemetery is located south of the core village at an altitude of about 150 m above sea level in a wooded area. The closed cemetery can be reached from the south via the Meisenhofweg. On the other hand from the center of the village via a partly steep and badly passable footpath. This footpath connects to the Heinzenweg and ends since its installation in recent times at a wire mesh fence surrounding the cemetery.

Heiliger Sand (Worms)

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<p>The cemetery Heiliger Sand is the oldest Jewish cemetery preserved in situ in Europe. The oldest gravestones date back to the 11th century. The cemetery survived medieval expulsions and pogroms as well as the Shoah - not always entirely unscathed, but without extensive damage and clearances, so that around 2,500 stones bear witness to the history of the community.</p><p>The cemetery consists of an Old and a New part, which was occupied from the end of the 17th century.

Jewish cemetery (St. Wendel)

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The Jewish cemetery in St. Wendel was established just a few years after the settlement of the first Jewish families (1862) in 1871 outside the city in Urweiler. The city of St. Wendel took over the costs for the enclosure. About 50 burials were made in the cemetery until 1940.   
   

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