Jewish Cemetery, Aachen

The Jewish Cemetery Aachen (German: Jüdischer Friedhof Lütticher Straße Aachen) is located in Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the corner of Lütticher Straße (English "Liège street") and Körnerstraße.

Jüdischer Friedhof, Aachen
Jewish Cemetery, Aachen
Details
Established1820
Location
Lütticher Straße, Aachen, Germany
Coordinates50.766214°N 6.072006°E / 50.766214; 6.072006
TypePublic
Find a GraveJüdischer Friedhof, Aachen
Jewish Cemetery, Aachen
Main portal of cemetery
Grave of the family Feodor Meyer, designed by Gustav Rutz, bronze casting by Förster & Kracht in 1902

In 1820, the Jewish community in Aachen asked the district administrator to allocate a place for the burial of deceased members of the community, since at that time the dead of the Jewish community in Aachen had to be buried in Düren in the old cemetery or in the neighboring Dutch village of Vaals. The Jewish cemetery was transferred to the Jewish community of Aachen in June 1822 and used for burials from the same year. In 1865 and 1878, the site was expanded. The burial hall was completed in 1890.[1] The oldest tombstone (mazewot) dates from 1822. In the cemetery, which is still in use today, there are 1366 tombstones for 2153 deceased (as of December 2014).

The cemetery has been desecrated several times. Most recently, on the night of 1–2 August 2010, the cemetery wall was vandalized with anti-semitic smearings and Nazi symbolism.[2]

See also
  • Jewish Cemetery, Eilendorf (another Jewish cemetery in Aachen)

References
  1. Heyne, Maren [at Wikidata] (1994). Stille Gärten – beredte Steine: Jüdische Friedhöfe im Rheinland; Fotografien [Silent gardens - talking stones: Jewish cemeteries in the Rhineland; Photographs] (in German) (1 ed.). Bonn, Germany: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger GmbH Bonn. pp. 104–107 [104]. ISBN 3-8012-0214-3. (2+153+7+2 pages)
  2. "Nazi-Schmierereien am jüdischen Friedhof" [Nazi smearings at the Jewish cemetery]. Aachener Nachrichten (in German). Aachen, Germany: Zeitungsverlag Aachen GmbH. 2010-08-02. Retrieved 2015-01-22.

Further reading
  • Pracht, Elfi [in German] (1997). "Aachen: Der Friedhof an der Lütticher Straße" [Aachen: The cemetery at the Lütticher Straße]. In Mainzer, Udo (ed.). Jüdisches Kulturerbe in Nordrhein-Westfalen [Jewish cultural heritage in North-Rhine Westphalia]. Beiträge zu den Bau- und Kunstdenkmälern im Rheinland. (in German). Vol. 34.1: Teil I: Regierungsbezirk Köln. Cologne, Germany: J.P. Bachem Verlag. pp. 19–47 [31–33]. ISBN 3-7616-1322-9. ISSN 0344-6395. (2+xvi+650 pages+10 folded sheets of maps+2 pages)
  • Peters, Dieter [in German] (2001) [1997]. Der jüdische Friedhof in Aachen, Lütticher Straße. Dokumentation der Grabsteine und Auswertung des Beerdigungsregisters 1829–2000 [The Jewish cemetery in Aachen, Lütticher Straße. Documentation of the tombstones and evaluation of the death register 1829–2000]. Jüdische Friedhöfe im Rheinland (in German). Vol. I (2 ed.). Aachen, Germany. DNB-IDN 963024523.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (59 pages)
  • Dux, Holger Albert Matthias [in German]; Fissabre, Anke; Gedig, Iris; Hüttenmeister, Nathanja [in German]; Jedwabny, Michael; Malecha, Hartmut; Blume, Birgit; Bruch, Claudia; Busch, Bodo; Felsch, Waltraud; Haude, Rüdiger [at Wikidata]; Herpertz, Hannelore; Hoekstra-von Cleef, Wilma; Lohe, Alexander; Lorenz, Andreas; Offergeld, Bettina; Siepmann, Brunhild (2022-11-02). Dux, Holger Albert Matthias [in German]; Gedig, Iris (eds.). Der Jüdische Friedhof Aachen Lütticher Straße [The Jewish cemetery Aachen Lütticher Straße] (in German). Eul, Steffen; Kiekhefer, Mark; Risters, Jan Philipp; Simon, Cathrin (1 ed.). Aachen, Germany: Mayersche Buchhandlung Aachen GmbH. ISBN 978-3-87519-266-7. (2+514+2+2 pages, 1 insert of a folded map sheet)
  • "Jüdischer Friedhof in Aachen: Verborgenes Juwel auf Schritt und Tritt erkundet" [Jewish cemetery in Aachen: Hidden juwel investigated in detail]. Aachener Zeitung (in German). Medienhaus Aachen GmbH. 2022-11-05. Archived from the original on 2022-11-05. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
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