Kirchzarten

At the Markenhof estate near Kirchzarten, Alexander Moch from Schwanau-Nonnenweier had been running a farm since the end of the First World War, which was intended to train young Jews willing to emigrate for their future work in their new adopted country of Palestine. The Markenhof is considered the first 'kibbutz' on German soil.

The Lehrhof had been financed by the Jewish entrepreneur Konrad Goldmann from Freiburg; he also used his funds to set up a synagogue in a shingle-roofed annex on the farm, whose stained-glass windows were designed by Friedrich Adler from Laupheim. The individual windows are said to represent the twelve tribes of Israel.