Old Jewish Cemetery/Memorial Cemetery; Tombstone of Meshullam ben Kalonymos

Since October 1926, there is a Memorial Cemetery on the “Judensand”. Out of an initiative of the Rabbis Siegmund Salfeld and Sali Levi, medieval Jewish gravestones and memorial stones (11th to 15th centuries) were placed there. They had been used as building materials after pogroms and were discovered since the 1820s during work on the fortifications in Mainz. The Memorial Cemetery underlines the long presence of Jews in Mainz. The memorial stone for Rabbi Meshullam ben Kalonymos the Great is dated in the 11th century and replaced the lost tombstone. Meshullam was the founder of the Jewish Community in the 10th c.