Former mikvah (Freudental)
Schächthaus
Former slaughterhouse of the Jewish community, where mainly small livestock and poultry were once slaughtered in accordance with ritual regulations.
Gertrude Goldschmidt
<p>Gertrude Goldschmidt (*1912 Hamburg –1994 Caracas) bekannt als Gego, war eine moderne jüdisch-deutsch-venezolanische bildende Künstlerin. Gego ist vielleicht am besten für ihre geometrischen und kinetischen Skulpturen aus den 1960er und 1970er Jahren bekannt, die sie als „Zeichnungen ohne Papier“ bezeichnete.Gego absolvierte von 1932 bis 1938 eine Ausbildung zur Architektin und Ingenieurin an der Technischen Hochschule Stuttgart.
Gertrude Goldschmidt
<p>Gego absolvierte von 1932 bis 1938 eine Ausbildung zur Architektin und Ingenieurin an der Technischen Hochschule Stuttgart. Als Jüdin war sie kurz nach Erhalt ihres Diploms zur Flucht nach Venezuela gezwungen, wo sie als Frau in einem technischen Berufsfeld nicht Fuß fassen konnte.
Prayer room Unterlimpurg
At the beginning of the 18th century, a small Jewish community formed in Unterlimpurg under the protection of the Hall council. Initially, it held its services in the house of Moses Mayer.
Since 1727, regular services were held on the upper floor of the so-called Waller'schen Haus at Unterlimpurger Straße 65 e. In 1893, the Jewish congregation then moved to a prayer hall in Obere Herrngasse.
Karl Adler
Karl Adler was born on January 25, 1890 in Buttenhausen, a district of the municipality of Münsingen. In 1902, he began his training at the Protestant Teachers' Seminary in Esslingen. After his teacher's examination, he was employed as a head teacher and teacher at an Israelite school. In 1910 he began his studies at the Royal Conservatory in Stuttgart. He then became a singer at the Stuttgart Court Theater. In 1940, he, his wife and his parents emigrated to the USA. From 1946 to 1968, he worked as a music professor at Yeshiva University, a conservative Jewish university.
Joseph Maier's apartment
The first rabbi of the newly founded Jewish community in Stuttgart moved into the apartment in Lange Stra e sometime in the 1830s. Before he was appointed district rabbi in 1834, he lived and worked as a house rabbi with the family of the commercial councillor and banker Nathan Wolf Kaulla at Poststraße 6 (today: Alte Poststraße).
Otto Hirsch
Otto Hirsch was born in Stuttgart on January 9, 1885. He began his law studies at the University of Heidelberg in 1902. After his second state examination, he joined the Stuttgart city administration as a council assessor. His responsibilities included construction and water law as well as matters relating to the electricity industry. In 1919, he moved to the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior as a rapporteur for shipping issues, electricity supply and hydropower utilization and was very quickly promoted to Ministerialrat.
Fritz Bauer
Fritz Bauer was born in Stuttgart on July 16, 1903, the son of the Jewish textile wholesaler Ludwig Bauer and his wife Ella Bauer, née Hirsch. Together with his parents and his sister Margot, who was three years younger, he spent much of his childhood and youth in a house at Wiederholdstra e 10 in Stuttgart, which unfortunately no longer exists today (a memorial stele was erected opposite it in 2024). He spent his secondary school years at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in the west of Stuttgart, where he also graduated in 1921.
Fig tree family
The wealthy and respected Feigenbaum family lived here until 1938:
- Emil Feigenbaum, b. 1893
- Klara Feigenbaum, née Reis, b. 1892
- Kurt Feigenbaum, b. 1921
- Werner Feigenbaum, born 1929
Emil Feigenbaum was a businessman and co-owner of the company Lippmann Wolf und Sohn at Schwieberdingerstr. 62. The company ran a wholesale trade in old goods and had to be sold to Otto Lang and Hans Maas in August 1937.
In April 1938, the family also sold the house in Franklinstra e. In October 1938, they managed to escape to Belgium.