The business belonged to Hedwig Blank, residing at Markt 10.

The property belonged to M. & S. Cohn. 

During the November pogrom in 1938, the still existing Jewish stores and numerous apartments of Jewish families and residents were attacked by SA people and other National Socialists. The housing and store furnishings were smashed, and many of the Jewish residents were mistreated. The Jewish men were arrested and later taken to Buchenwald concentration camp. Here Nathan Dannemann died from the mistreatment.

According to the handbook of the Jewish community administration of 1924/25, the Jewish community in Altenburg also included the Jewish family Ludwig and Alma Rotholz, who lived in Eisenberg and ran a clothing store in Eisenberg since about 1910 (Steinweg 6). After the death of her husband (Ludwig Rotholz, +21.2.1912) Alma Rotholz moved with her business to the corner house Marktgasse 2.

A synagogue was already present in Usingen at the beginning of the 19th century, although it was probably a prayer room in one of the Jewish residential houses. In 1852, a new synagogue and worship order was issued. In 1877 the synagogue was in such a dilapidated condition that it could not be renovated.

In the course of the November pogrom in 1938, the building was broken up, whereupon the interior furnishings and prayer books were destroyed and the Torah scrolls were thrown into the street.

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.

During the Thirty Years' War (1620/21), four Jews were allowed to settle in the area of the German court. 
It is unknown whether Jewish persons/families actually settled.