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Meerssen Cemetery. 66 burials total.
Location: On the north side of Tussen deBruggen Straat, diagonally opposite number 21 Tussen de Bruggen, directly on the town border of Meerssen and Rothem. The Rothem Gem. Meerssen sign is located on the sidewalk in front of the southern end of the cemetery and the Meerssen sign is at the opposite side sidewalk across from the northern end of the cemetery. The little river, the Kleine Geul, flows in a nearly east- west direction along the northern perimeter of the cemetery. The cemetery is enclosed and locked and the family which resides at 21 Tussen de Bruggen has the key. The cemetery appears as Isräelitsche Begraatplaats --- with a Christian cross symbol alongside --- on the town map.
Rows A through H are on the right side of the walk that divides the cemetery in half. The numbers of the gravestones are as they appear from the far right of the entrance --- that part of the cemetery near the little river.
There are three or four gravestones on the ground alongside the inside of the front wall of the cemetery to the far right of the front entrance gate.
Information gathered by Leopold, Gail and Helene Hoenig on July 17, 1987.
Addtional information was donated by Mr. Dieter Peters of Aachen, Germany. For 20 years he has been the cemetery representative and relationship manager of the Landesverbandes der Jüdischen Gemeinden von Nordrhein (the Union of the Jewish communities of the North Rhine area,) and he has amassed a personal database of some 80,000 names and burials. | 
