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50°58′N 6°39′E, 307.7 miles WSW of Berlin.  City 20 km west of Cologne and the capital of the Rhein-Erft-Kreis. Bergheim, Bergheim an der Erft. The city's Niederaußem district is one of the most important suppliers for energy from lignites in Europe.

The Jewish community that existed in Bergheim in the early Middle Ages was destroyed during the 1349 Jewish pogrom. In the early modern era , Bergheim again had Jewish citizens since 1637 with a synagogue and one cemetery outside the city walls. Therefore, the old cemetery on the Knüchelsdamm existed until about 1862. In its place came the new cemetery on the Bethlehem road. The last burial took place here in 1933. Although the cemetery had to be sold in 1940 to the city of Bergheim eventually the Nazis were defeated. Jewish community history.

50126 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz)

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