Israelite Association

Only towards the end of the 19th century again a Jewish community called "Israelitische Vereinigung" was established in a rented room of a back house in the Pauritzer Gasse (today's Pauritzer Straße), to which largely Jewish families from Eastern European countries belonged. The first influx of Jewish families began in the late 1860s. In 1868, a Wilhelm Wolff registered a text business in Altenburg. From the association an independent religious community was formed at the end of the 1920s. In 1998, 50 years after the November pogrom, a memorial plaque was erected, the inscription of which reads as follows: "At this place was the Jewish prayer hall. We commemorate here the Jewish citizens of our town. The poor are only seemingly forgotten. Their hope is not gone forever. Psalm 9:19." The building no longer exists today and the site has since been redeveloped.