Residence Gabriel Dreyfuß

Gabriel Dreyfuß was the third head of the Hochberg Jewish community from 1799 to 1805. He came from Hechingen and had been a patron Jew in Hochberg since 1783. In 1801, he bought the former parsonage at Hauptstraße 10 and in 1802 had the two columns, which no longer exist today, installed at the entrance to the courtyard. The Hebrew inscription on the right column read: "We wish the good entrance", that on the pictured left column "We wish the good exit". From 1804 Gabriel Dreyfuß had received court protection in Stuttgart, where he now resided and died in 1810. The house was rented by the Dreyfuß family from 1804 to 1829  to the state, which had it used as a parsonage. Main Street 10 is the birthplace of Gabriel's son Samuel Dreyfus, who was born here on February 2, 1804. After university studies were opened to Jews in 1819, Samuel Dreyfus was the first regular Jewish student (medicine) in Württemberg. Samuel Dreifus later practiced medicine in Stuttgart and married Henriette Benedict, the heiress of the Benedict banking house in Stuttgart. He thus became head of the Benedict banking house. From 1831 until his death in 1853, he was the first chairman of the Waisen-Verein and the Israelitische Waisen- und Erziehungsanstalt Wilhelmspflege in Esslingen, the largest Jewish foundation in southwestern Germany. From 1838 to 1953, Samuel Dreifus was a member of the Israelitische Oberkirchenbehörde, the governing authority of the Jewish communities in the Kingdom of Württemberg, with the title "Oberkirchenvorsteher."