Jüdischer Friedhof Köln-Mülheim

The Jewish cemetery in Cologne -Mülheim is a Jewish cemetery in the former city of Mülheim am Rhein, which is a district of Cologne ( North Rhine -Westphalia) since 1914.

History

The 1774 scale Jewish cemetery in Cologne- Mülheim exists today. It is located west of the Neurather ring on the train tracks of the route Cologne -Mülheim to Leverkusen -Opladen. Since 1864, the Mülheim small Jewish community also included the mayors Merheim, Bergisch Gladbach, Bensberg, Odenthal and Overath. 1929, their inclusion in the Jewish community of Cologne. The size of the Mülheim municipality amounted to 174 in 1885 and 1930 to about 200 members. After the old Mülheim synagogue was destroyed in 1784 by floating ice of the Rhine, was in 1788 a new building to be consecrated. Destroyed in the Kristallnacht in 1938, its ruins were demolished in 1956.