In the center of Süchteln, on Hochstraße, the brothers Nathan and Jacob Lifges had their "textile store N.Lifges". The store rooms were on the lower floor, the family lived in the upper.

By 1900, the Lifges brothers had abandoned their butcher shop and moved into the textile trade. In this field they proved to be very successful economically. After the death of Nathan Lifges in 1902, Jacob Lifges took over the business alone.

Aron Elkan founded a cardboard factory in 1861, the "Papier-u. Pappenf. A. Elkan". This must be imagined at first still very small and modest. The company premises were located on Krefelder Straße 175.

From 1896, Aron Elkan's sons Johannes and Peter, who had taken over the company in the meantime, began producing roofing felt. Roofing felt was a new product at that time, which was well received and promised good economic prospects with a rapid expansion of ever new factory facilities. The contested path brought great economic success already a few years.

In 1768, a Jewish cemetery on Venloerstraße in Dülken was mentioned for the first time. Until the year 1873 burials took place here. In the same year, the newer Jewish cemetery was then opened on Kampweg.

In 1938, the cemetery site was sold to a company. Today, the site, which is designed as a green space, is owned by the city.

In 1749 the Jewish cemetery was established on the Heidweg. It replaced an older cemetery, which can no longer be located today. Originally, the cemetery grounds were surrounded by a rampart. However, this was destroyed during a cemetery desecration in 1769.

The last burial took place here in 1931. There were also several desecrations of the burial ground during the National Socialist rule.

Since 1853 the Jewish burial ground of Viersen was located on the Florastraße. Buried here was until the year 1906. When the Jewish community 1907 by the city a part of the municipal cemetery had been handed over, went in compensation the part of the older Jewish cemetery, on which until then no burials had taken place, into the municipal possession.

Today there is a green area here. No gravestones have been preserved. A memorial stone reminds of the former Jewish cemetery. It can be assumed that the former burial ground was larger than today's lawn.

In 1812, the Jewish community in Süchteln built its prayer room on the second floor at Hindenburgstraße 3. The private house was located directly next to the Protestant church.

During the November pogroms, the building was not set on fire because there was a barbershop on the first floor owned by non-Jewish owners. Nevertheless, the prayer room was completely destroyed.

Through the donation of a wealthy Dülken Jew, the Jewish community was able to build a prayer room in 1781 in premises in the backyard of the house on the corner of Lange Straße and Domhof. This prayer room replaced an older prayer room, which is documented since the 1680s, but can no longer be located today.

The prayer room was used by the Jewish community until the ceremonial dedication of the newly built synagogue in 1898.

In the summer of 1898, the synagogue was solemnly consecrated in the former Bahnhofstraße, today's Martin-Luther-Straße.

The brick building, which had been constructed from a mixture of the neo-Islamic and Romanesque styles, was located directly opposite a Protestant church and was a popular motif on picture postcards of the city.

During the November pogroms, the synagogue was set on fire. The inventory was destroyed. The Protestant pastor Wilhelm Veit saved one of the Torah scrolls that night. This is now in the Jewish community center in Krefeld.

It is the former residence of Jonas Leffmann. He had been a resident of Viersen since 1807 and, as a trader in ellewaren, was one of the few Jews to hold a trade patent in Viersen since 1818. In 1822, he is even listed as a cotton manufacturer in the address directory of the city of Viersen, which shows that he had at least succeeded in advancing to the middle class of Viersen tradesmen. Nevertheless, Jonas Leffmann had to declare bankruptcy in 1824 and was not able to register a trade patent again until 1829.

The house Rektoratstraße 10 was acquired by the Jewish community in 1862. The building served different purposes. In the basement was the Jewish school. The private school was nationalized in 1905. It existed until 1932, when the last Jewish teacher - Israel Nussbaum - retired.

On the second floor of the building, the Jewish community built a prayer hall, which existed until the expropriation of the property around 1939/1940. The building passed into municipal ownership.