Jewish memorial
Rather hidden, enclosed by a living hedge, next to the sewage treatment plant of RWE-Power-AG, is the Jewish memorial of the former Jewish community of Frenz. As early as 1675, there were an estimated 25 Jews living in Frenz, which was then part of the Duchy of Jülich.
And in a document dated 13 January 1788, Balduin Franz Carl Freiherr von Merode-Houffalize, Lord of Frenz, granted the Jews of Frenz permission to build a synagogue. In Burgstraße there was a Jewish grocery shop run by the siblings Jettchen and Sophie Meyer until their deportation to Theresienstadt in 1941. The Jewish population (at least in 1799, 28 people = 11.2% of the population were Jewish) had their own cemetery.
The actual Jewish cemetery was originally 695 square metres in size and was located further up towards the motorway, on what was then a path to Haus Palant.
During the construction of the Reichsautobahn Aachen – Cologne
The monument can be seen in 1985