Residential and commercial building and stumbling blocks of Mr. and Mrs. Mayer

Josef Mayer (* 1865), who lived with his wife Cäcilie née Rothschild (* 1866) in the house Murgtalstraße 5 (today Josefstraße) until 1940, loved his hometown Rastatt.  He ran a tobacco store in his home. The amateur poet has memorialized Rastatt in many poems. He was active in several associations, among other things also as president of the GroKaGe Rastatt, which finances the stumbling block, which is laid before the house, out of solidarity to the former active one. However, the Mayerseppl, as he was called, was not helped by his love for his hometown. On October 22, 1940, he and his wife were deported to the Gurs camp, where he died barely three months later. His wife Cäcilie survived him in Gurs for another ten months. She died in Gurs in November 1941.