Judengasse / Am Remsufer

The former street name "Judengasse" is no reference to Jewish families in Neckarrems. Rather, in the late 18th century and in the 19th century, Jewish cattle dealers from Hochberg regularly passed through here to the market in Winnenden. On this occasion they sold livestock to the farmers of Neckarrems. Horses were also traded. The post office in Koppengasse (today Remstalstraße), the Rems bridge and two inns (Ochsen and Hirsch) offered more lucrative business than the then village of Bittenfeld, via which Winnenden itself could be reached more quickly. The street name probably dates back to the 19th century. Already a quarter of a year after the Nazi takeover on May 4, 1933, and thus more than a year before the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in August 1934, the street was renamed Hindenburg-Straße. In 1945, a few weeks after the end of the war, the street was again renamed "Judengasse". After repeated suggestions of several residents the renaming took place in 1967 in "Am Remsufer".

Barbara Rösch has proven in an extensive study hundreds of "Judengassen" as Jewish trade routes in German-speaking countries. Also in Ludwigsburg-Oßweil and in Kirchheim am Neckar there were once such street names, without Jews living in the place. Rösch, however, overlooked the Neckarrems Judengasse in her documentation.