Rudolph's House

In the Middle Ages there may have been a prayer room or synagogue, of which nothing more is known. After the number of Jewish families increased in the second half of the 19th century, prayer rooms were first used in Jewish residential houses. First in Eichel's house (Hauptmarkt 36), then in Liebenstein's house (Schwabhäuser Straße 6) and from 1877 in Rudolph's house (Siebleber Straße 8). A Jewish traveler who came through Gotha in 1887 "identified" another building as a synagogue on the basis of the presumably inconspicuous character of the prayer house at that time and described it in the magazine "Der Israelit", which, however, could soon be set right by a local expert.