Jewish quarter (Gera)

In Gera, a Jewish community existed already in the Middle Ages. Jews were first mentioned in the city in 1331: Emperor Ludwig confirmed to the bailiff Heinrich von Gera the rights over the Jews in his territory. The persecution of the Jews during the plague in 1349 also affected the Jews in Gera. One survivor was possibly the Jew Abraham of Gera, mentioned in Erfurt in 1357. 
The Jewish families probably lived in the "Jüdengasse" located between Markt and Kornmarkt, but it is unclear from which time the designation and thus the Jewish settlement in this alley originated. Possibly the designation comes only from the time after the persecution of 1349.