Judenstraße (Kempen)

As in other places in Germany, the Jews were driven out of the towns during the plague pogroms in the Middle Ages. The fate of the Jews in Kempen was similar.

Only around the year 1800 Jews again settled in the city and set up a prayer room, which was located in the street that was later called Judenstraße. Not far from this street, a synagogue and a private Jewish school were built.

From April 20, 1933, and until the end of the Nazi era, Judenstraße was renamed "Hindenburgstraße" after the then Reich President Paul von Hindenburg. After the war, the street was renamed again to its original name "Judenstraße."