Residence of Moses and Fromet Mendelssohn

After their marriage in 1762, the famous enlightener and pioneer of the Haskalah, Moses Mendelssohn, and his wife Fromet Mendelssohn (née Guggenheim) moved into the house at the former Spandauer Straße 68 (corner of Karl-Liebknecht-Straße). Before them, other enlighteners such as M. Mendelssohn's friend Gotthold Ephraim Lessing had already lived there. Until his death in 1786, M. Mendelssohn, like many Berlin Jews, was not allowed to buy the house. This was only granted to F. Mendelssohn a year later. Even after they moved to their daughter in Nesutrelitz in the same year, the house remained in the family's possession. In 1795, her son Joseph Mendelssohn founded here the well-known banking house Mendelssohn & Co. which in 1815, after a few stops in between, found its headquarters in Jägerstra;e. 

In 2015, a ground monument and a memorial stele were built on the site of the now demolished house. It commemorates the life and work of the enlightener