Private house with Jewish school and prayer hall

In the house Murgstraße 6, which belonged to the wealthy Daniel Kassel and who was also called "Judenschultheiß" at times, there was a Jewish school, as well as a prayer room for holding services, at least since 1720. At that time the Jewish community was too poor to be able to afford its own synagogue.

Sources report loud quarrels between the sons of the Kassel family and those of the likewise rich Vola family, who lived in Dreherstraße. After another dispute in 1741, Margrave Ludwig Georg decreed that the prayer hall was to be moved to the other side of the Murg. In addition, no more services were to be held in the house of Daniel Kassel and he was fined. The head bailiff Lassolaye tightened the ban and forbade the Jews of Kuppenheim and Rastatt to celebrate services together. He also prohibited the building of a synagogue.