Jüdischer Friedhof Köln-Bocklemünd

The Jewish cemetery Bocklemünd in the Cologne district Bocklemünd / Mengenich exists as a Jewish burial site since the year 1918 and is still used today as a cemetery. The 44 818 square meter site is located in the angle of Venloerstraße and military ring road in western neighborhood of Cologne West cemetery. Many of the grave sites are designed artistically demanding.

Mortuary

The 1930 inaugurated mortuary, funeral home, cemetery management and funeral home, should initially resemble the buildings of the neighboring West cemetery. The architect Robert Stern, from the persecution of the Nazis later escaped to the United States, but put their own accents in the neoclassical style. The interior of the central hall of mourning is kept very colorful with purple walls, yellow columns and a blue, star- decorated ceiling. The funeral hall marks the beginning of the central axis of old, symmetrically shaped part of the cemetery. To Venloerstraße out she wears in Hebrew the word " The righteous shall live in his faith " ( Hab 2:4 EU).

Monuments and memorials

In the Lapidary of the cemetery 58 fragment stones from the 12th to 15th centuries have been incorporated which originate from the closed in 1695 and 1936 discontinued Jewish cemetery Jewish Büchel Raderberg district. The people buried there were moved to Bocklemünd.

A pyramid- shaped stone, also designed in 1934 by Robert Stern, is a memorial of the League of Jewish soldiers at the front for the Jewish soldiers who fell in World War I on the German side.

In the central aisle of the cemetery marks a monument with Stars of David, Menorah and Torah scrolls, the point at which the from destroyed in the Nazi era Cologne synagogues dating ritual objects were buried. These had been secretly buried in 1939 after Kristallnacht, at the same place in order to hide them from the destruction of the Nazis - in 1979 they were again found during construction work and then buried in coffins according rite. Next to the monument commemorates a place to "over 11,000 brothers and sisters of our community who have fallen as victims of Nazi racial mania for Judaism in the years 1933-1945 ".

Personalities

• Leonhard Tietz (1849-1914), businessman and founder of Leonhard Tietz AG, Kaufhof later
• Lilli Jahn (1900-1945), physician and victims of National Socialism
• Alphons Silbermann (1909-2000), social scientist and journalist