Gedenkstätte Neuer Börneplatz

Gedenkstätte Neuer Börneplatz stands in Frankfurt beside the outer wall of the Old Jewish Cemetery on Battonnstraße. The wall carries a frieze of 11,908 memorial name blocks for Jewish victims associated with Frankfurt. Each block records a name and available biographical details, including birth, death, and places of death. Small stones placed on the blocks connect the memorial with Jewish mourning rites.

Neuer Börneplatz forms a pedestrian zone between the cemetery wall and Rechneigrabenstraße. The area once carried the name Judenmarkt, or Market of the Jews, before wartime destruction and later changes reshaped it. The Börneplatz Synagogue, built in 1882, was destroyed during Kristallnacht in 1938. Slim steel rails mark part of its former ground plan beneath your feet.

A stone cube made from former ghetto foundations stands among plane trees at the square’s centre. Symbolic street signs at Rechneigrabenstraße show the successive names attached to Börneplatz. Public protests during the 1980s Börneplatz conflict helped preserve archaeological remains now connected with Museum Judengasse. A nearby Jewish Museum Frankfurt database adds biographical information about the people commemorated here.