Jewish cemetery (Stommeln)

The Stommeln Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Stommeln, a district of Pulheim in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, established before 1862. The cemetery served the Jewish Community of Stommeln. It is located on Nagelschmiedstraße.

History

The small Jewish cemetery in Stommeln came into being before 1861; the exact date of its establishment is no longer known. The last burial took place in 1937. The cemetery was devastated during the Nazi era and restored to its present condition in 1967.

Today, 25 gravestones are preserved at the site.

References

Further reading

• Manfred Backhausen, Eli Josef Schneider: The cemeteries of the Jewish communities in Stommeln and Fliesteden. In: Jews in Stommeln, History of a Jewish Community in the Cologne Surroundings. (Pulheimer Beiträge zur Geschichte und Heimatkunde, published by the Verein für Geschichte und Heimatkunde), Pulheim 1983, Part 1, pp. 225–260. [not evaluated]

External links

• (in German)