Jewish Cemetery, Worms

Local nameAlter Jüdischer Friedhof „Heiliger Sand“
LocationWorms, Germany

The Jewish Cemetery in Worms or Heiliger Sand, in Worms, Germany, is usually called the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Europe, although the Jewish burials in the Jewish sections of the Roman catacombs predate it by a millennium. The Jewish community of Worms was established by the early eleventh century, and the oldest tombstone still legible dates from 1058/59. The cemetery was closed in 1911, when a new cemetery was inaugurated. Some family burials continued until the late 1930s. The older part still contains about 1,300 tombstones, the newer part more than 1,200. The cemetery is protected and cared for by the city of Worms, the Jewish community of Mainz-Worms, and the Landesdenkmalamt of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Salomon L. Steinheim-Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen has been documenting and researching it since 2005.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Cemetery,_Worms

Address 21 Willy-Brandt-Ring, Worms 67547, Germany

Coordinates 49°37'46.226" N 8°21'19.932" E

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