Humberghaus (mikvah in Hamminkeln)

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The Humberghaus at Hohe Straße 1 in Hamminkeln-Dingden is an old residential and commercial building that is now used as a museum. It commemorates the Jewish family Humberg, who ran a butcher store and a manufactured goods store here and lived in Dingden until 1941. During the restoration starting in 2001 by members of the Heimatverein Dingden e. V., numerous traces of the life of this family were discovered and preserved in the house. Among other things, there is a private mikveh in the house, which is a rarity. The house, which was initially only rented, was purchased in 2008.[1]

Mikvah (Herborn)

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The mikvah is located in the basement vault of the house Kornmarkt 22, a building that was used by the Jewish community in the town of Herborn (today: Lahn-Dill district, in Hesse) from 1677 to 1875. Here were also the synagogue and the schoolroom of the Jewish community.

Mikvah (Cologne)

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The Jewish community of Köln in the Middle Ages was one of the oldest and most important on German soil. Expression of the bloom time of the community in the Middle Ages was the construction of a synagogue and a mikvah (the ritual bath), a Talmud school, a hospital and a hostel.

Mikvah (Offenburg)

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The mikvah in Offenburg, a town in the west of Baden-Württemberg, was probably built in the 16th/17th century. The mikvah under the house Glaserstraße 8 is a protected cultural monument. It remained closed to the public until the 1970s.

Medieval Jewish Court (Speyer) and Museum SchPIRA

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The Judenhof Speyer was the central district of the medieval Jewish quarter of Speyer and was probably founded in 1090 by privileges of Emperor Hainrich IV. It consisted of the ritual and communal buildings of the medieval communal center. Thus, it was the second Jewish quarter of Speyer, a first Siendlungsbezirk was located in the suburb of Altspeyer, where the Jewish cemetery continued to be located. The Judenhof consisted of the synagogue (ca. 1100), the women's school (ca. 1250), the oldest preserved mikvah in Central Europe (ca.