Former Berend-Lehmann-Palais (1728)

At the beginning of the 18th century, the banker and "court factor" Issachar Berend Lehmann (born in Essen in 1661) had a baroque town palace built in Halberstadt's Judenstraße. Through his diplomatic skills, he had achieved some influence at the absolutist German courts. Among other things, he helped the Saxon Elector, August the Strong, to acquire the Polish royal crown.

Lehmann's commitment to Halberstadt's Jewish community made it the largest and most important community in central Germany around 1700. Halberstadt's Klaussynagoge with rabbinical seminary and the baroque community synagogue (1712) can be traced back to his foundation. The Talmud edition financed by Lehmann was distributed throughout the German-speaking world. Berend Lehmann also stepped in for the Christian city community and financed the reconstruction of the destroyed street after a major fire.

Lehmann died in Halberstadt in 1730. His palace survived both the November pogrom in 1938 and the bombing of Halberstadt in April 1944. It was not until 1986 that the palace was demolished - as one of the first buildings - in the course of the area redevelopment of the lower town.