In 1865, the Israelite religious school was founded, and in 1868 a mikvah was established (in the complex of Dobermann's baths, Clemensstraße 5).

Already Landgrave Hermann I (1190-1217), in order to promote economic life in the city, is said to have invited Jews to build houses near the market. The Jewish settlement in the "Judengasse" (today's Karlstraße), in medieval times "the best alley" in the city, could date back to this time. The first Jew known by name in Eisenach was probably the author of synagogal poetry Jechiel ben Jakob (1235). In 1283, the Eisenach city law established provisions regarding Jewish residents. In 1343 one side of the "Judengasse" burned down.

A synagogue was initially established in the manor house of the ducal domain estate in the street "Am Schloßberg". In 1819 the rooms used for this purpose were cancelled by the ducal chamber. Thereupon the services were held in a Jewish private house. 
In 1822 the Jewish community built a synagogue. It was destroyed in the great fire of Dreißigacker on May 13, 1867, to which 145 residential buildings fell victim. As a result, the exact location is unknown. The Jewish school was also completely destroyed in the fire of 1867. 

The Jewish cemetery was established in the 17th century. On the oldest gravestone is the year 1665. 24 gravestones are preserved in the older (western) part of the cemetery (mostly from the 18th century). In the eastern part of the cemetery there are another 28 gravestones in two rows of graves. After most of the Jewish inhabitants had moved away from Dreißigacker until about 1880, no more burials took place in the cemetery. The cemetery area covers about 10 ar.

Since the beginning of the 18th century, the Jewish Strupp family had been based near the royal seat of Meiningen, in the neighboring village of Drei&szligacker. In the beginning, they were mainly active in the grain trade, but expanded their business to textiles, especially cotton, linen and silk. Since 1742 the Strupps were also active in banking. A two-story house with a garden in Dreißigacker served as the family's ancestral home. From 1825 at the latest, credit transactions with the ducal court were added, and so the banking house „B. M.

Ida Rothenberg was the chairwoman of the Israelitischer Frauenverein in Bleicherode in 1924-32, whose purpose was to support the needy. Funerals also fell within its remit. At the time of Rothenberg's leadership, the association had 30-40 members*.