PHOTOS OF BOLLENDORF, NOVEMBER 2008

PHOTOS OF BOLLENDORF, NOVEMBER 2008

SOME PHOTOS OF BOLLENDORF TAKEN DURING OUR NOVEMBER 9, 2008 VISIT.

Arriving in Bollendorf

View coming on the bridge from the Luxemburg side (Photo by Clare Goldschmidt)

Panoramic view of Bollendorf

View from the Waldhotel on Sonnenberg Hill

You can see in the far back a large white building: it's the former Ursuline convent where some of the Jewish children took classes in Latin. It's now a hotel-restaurant. The valley meanders along the River Sauer, which eventually joins the Mosel River.

Kirschstrasse

Going up towards the church

Salomon Mayer lived in the first houses with his wife Babette Bonem and their eight children. The barn was attached on the side. The synagogue stood right beyond the houses. You can see a wall of the Catholic Church and its bell tower.

Sauerstaden

Sauerstaden is a beautiful street with chestnut trees and a park along the river. Many Jews lived on it. It goes towards the cemetery and in the direction of Echternach.

Mayor Hermann Schmitz

Bollendorf Cemetery before destruction

In the foreground, you can see the grave of Salomon Mayer who died in 1932

The two plaques

On the cemetery wall

Leaving Bollendorf

In the direction Bollendorf-Luxemburg,crossing the bridge over the Sauer

Lindenstrasse

Where Daniel Levy had his house and bakery