Germany: 47 Jewish cemeteries documented

The Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History in Duisburg, Germany has documented 47 Jewish cemeteries in the Euregio Rhein Maas region - part of North Rhine Westfalia and part of the Dutch province of Limburg

The online searchable database of these cemeteries offers more than 3,400 gravestone inscriptions (1715 is the oldest), with German translations, commentaries, biographical details and photographs. It will be continuously updated. The Institute welcomes additions, corrections and biographical details.

Names, years of death, the Hebrew, German and Dutch inscriptions and translations into German are fully searchable in both German and Hebrew.

These are the cemeteries (NL=Netherlands; D=Germany):

B: Boxmeer/Vierlingsbeek (Nl), Brueggen (D), Brueggen-Bracht (D),
D: Dormagen (D), Dormagen-Zons (D),
G: Geldern (D), Gennep (Nl), Grevenbroich (D), Gr-Hemmerden (D), Gr-Huelchrath (D), Gr-Wevelinghoven (D), Grimlinghausen (D),
I: Issum (D), J: Juechen (D), J-Garzweiler (D), J-Hochneukirch (D),
K: Kempen (D), Korschenbroich (D), K-Glehn (D), Krefeld (new cemetery) (D), Kr-Huels (D), Kr-Linn (D),
M: Meerbusch-Lank-Latum (D), Moenchengladbach (D), Mg-Giesenkirchen (D), Mg-Odenkirchen (D), Mg-Rheindahlen (D), Mg-Rheydt (D), Mg-Wickrath (D),
N: Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen (D), Neuss (D),
R: Roermond (Oude Kerkhof, old andnew part) (Nl), Rommerskirchen (D), R-Butzheim (D),
S: Schiefbahn (Bertzweg) (D), Schiefbahn-Knickelsdorf (D), Schwalmtal-Waldniel (D), Sittard (Nl),
T: Toenisvorst-St. Toenis (D), T-Vorst (D),
V: Venlo (old and new cemetery) (Nl), Viersen (D), V-Duelken (D), V-Suechteln (D),
W: Willich (D), W-Anrath (D)

The "image-text inventory, documentation and comparative research on Jewish cemeteries in Dutch and German frame of reference" was carried out within the framework of a "setup of a euregional network for regional historic research" sponsored by the euregio rhein-maas-nord, the provincial government in Limburg and the government of North Rhine Westfalia.

The database, which has now been presented online, contains more than 3,400 gravestone inscriptions, the oldest from the year 1715, with German translations, commentaries, biographical details and photographs. It will be continously complemented (additions and corrections,particularly those of biographical details, are welcome!).

Access the database here, and also view Arolsen, the old cemetery of Frankfurt am Main (Battonnstrasse), Hamburg-Altona, Muelheim an der Ruhr and Winsen.

Here's an example of a burial in Muelheim an der Ruhr.

Hitzle bat [Jeho]schua ∞ Schimon Mülheim [23.06.1725]

‎‏פה‏‎
‎‏טמונה אשה[...]
‎‏מרת היצלה בת‏‎
‎‏[...]ושע ז״ל אשת
‎‏שמעון מילם [?] שנפטרת‏‎
‎‏ונקברת ביום ד׳ כ״ג תמוז‏‎
‎‏שנת תפ״ה לפ״ק‏‎
תנצב״ה
Hier
ist geborgen eine Frau [...]
Frau Hitzle, Tochter von
Jeho]schua (?), sein Andenken zum Segen, Gattin des
Schimon Mülheim. Verschieden
und begraben am Tag 4, 23. Tammus
des Jahres 485 der kleinen Zählung.
Ihre Seele sei eingebunden in das Bündel des Lebens

The database is constantly being extended to include more cemeteries and inscriptions.

To access the database, select cemeteries under "Auswahlmenue." Searching can then be carried out in German or Hebrew (change language by [alt]+[shift]).

To look at only one cemetery, go to "Inschriften" to access chronologically arranged inscriptions. Go through the list individually or select a specific year at "Jahr."

There are more details under "Information," which now only appears in German.