Jüdischer Friedhof am Weinberg, Wuppertal

The Jewish Cemetery on the Weinberg is a Jewish cemetery on the flank of the Stübchensberg in the Wuppertal district of Uellendahl-Katernberg, the address is Weinberg 4. It was established as a successor to the Old Jewish Cemetery on Weißenburgstraße in 1896.

The 11,979 m² cemetery contains hereditary burials of renowned families and the gravesites of fallen soldiers of the First World War. Gravesites of victims of the National Socialist regime of injustice, such as that of Oswald Laufer, and of people who escaped terror by suicide, as well as memorial stones for the victims of the Holocaust, recall the darkest period of German history.

Well-known Elberfeld citizens with graves in the cemetery are Rabbi Zacharias Auerbach, the rabbinical family Joseph Norden and the committed citizen Max Simon.

Some of the graves date from the post-war period, many of the deceased were immigrants from the former Soviet Union. The cemetery is open except on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays.

During the pogrom night of November 9-10, 1938, the mourning hall was doused with gasoline and set on fire, and the gravesites were desecrated. In 1985, the complex, including the Tahara House and the gravesites, was listed as a historical monument, with special recognition given to the valuable craftsmanship of the graves. In the fall of 2006, extensive renovation of the cemetery took place.