Ezechiel Dannhauser joined the company in 1864 Due to the intolerable conditions at the Judenbichl, the municipal council asked the magistrate to set up a burial ground for the Jewish community at the newly built municipal cemetery (now the Westfriedhof). The municipal council unanimously granted this request. The first burial took place in the same year.

In 1865, four transfers were made from the Judenbichl to the new cemetery, which was completely contrary to Jewish tradition, but was probably due to the unworthy conditions at the Judenbichl. In 1890, the cemetery was extended to the south and a new Israelite section was created in the south-west corner next to the Protestant section, which had been established in the south-east corner. In the following 20 years, the dead were again reburied.

During the First World War, Especially after Italy's entry into the war, numerous fallen soldiers from all crown lands were buried in Innsbruck. Around 20 fallen soldiers were buried in other places in Tyrol, such as Kufstein and Kitzbühel. The Chewra Kadisha (burial fraternity) was called upon around 50 times in Innsbruck to carry out burials in accordance with the ritual regulations.

The last funeral for the time being was held in 1942, before the cemetery was closed. The gravestones were sold and the graves were either to be abandoned or merged. There were disputes between the magistrate's department, which planned an orderly liquidation, and Gauleiter Hofer, who rejected any reverent handling. So nothing happened. The cemetery, which had already suffered badly from desecration, was damaged by bombs. Those gravestones that had not been sold lay mostly broken on the ground.

The repair was very difficult due to the lack of funds. In 1952, the city paid 30,000 schillings for the restoration of the IKG gravestones on condition that no damage or claims were made. Rudolf Brüll then had around 30 simple gravestones made according to designs by architect Theodor Prachensky. Rabbi Josef Link was given a better equipped grave. The names of victims who were not buried here, such as Ilse Brüll, were added to the family graves. Some victims were transferred here who had previously been buried elsewhere.

Due to the expansion of the „Südring“ In 1980/81, Asfinag reduced (halved) the size of the Jewish section of the municipal western cemetery and reburied coffins under the supervision of Chief Rabbi Akiba Eisenberg. 76 people were moved to a „memorial grave“, a kind of collective grave with a large bronze plaque, and 78 grave monuments were largely relocated within the cemetery. In this way, no stone was left where it was and the series of reburials in Innsbruck, which were forbidden due to Jewish tradition, came to a climax. The IKG was compensated with 1 million schillings and in 1981 the re-dedication took place in the presence of the governor and the Israeli ambassador. The burial registers of the Innsbruck West Cemetery have been completely preserved.