Villa Seligmann

The upper middle-class villa directly on the Eilenriede city park was built in 1903-1906 for Siegmund Seligmann (1853-1925), the Jewish director of Continental AG, and his family. Since joining the company in 1876, Seligmann had turned the "Continental Caoutchouc- und Gutta-Percha-Compagnie" into a global enterprise in just a few decades. In 1921 he was honored with an honorary doctorate from the Technical University, and in 1923 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Hanover. The building is executed in neo-baroque style on a large park plot, the rich interior decoration has been preserved almost intact.

After changing post-war uses, the building is now supported by the Siegmund Seligmann Foundation. It is home to the European Center for Jewish Music. The EZJM was co-founded by Andor Izsák in Augsburg in 1988 and became an institute at the Hanover University of Music and Drama in 1992, where Izsák introduced the "Synagogal Music" course and founded the Hanover Synagogal Choir.

This important site of German-Jewish history offers an extensive program of moderated concerts, musical readings, house tours, lectures, workshops and exhibitions.