Accommodation from Hans Heller
On October 15, 1898, Hans Hermann Heller was born in Greiz, the son of Paul and Edwig Heller. From 1916 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War. During this time he suffered an injury to his arm, which prevented him from pursuing his intended career as a pianist. He decided to study music theory and piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. There he met his later wife Ingrid Heller (née Eichwede, *1905). In 1925 he moved to Berlin to begin private studies in counterpoint, instrumentation and composition with Franz Schreker.
Behrendt department store
The department store Behrendt was opened in 1886 by the tradesman Adolph Behrendt in the center of Jena. After Behrendt initially had his business at Markt 16 with his trade license for a trade in white and plaster goods, he acquired the house Markt 17 in 1889/90 and laid the foundation for the establishment of Jena's first department store by expanding the business assortment with manufactures.
The Jewish cemetery in Bern
There was a cemetery in Bern from the Middle Ages. It was located where the Bundeshaus stands today. The new cemetery was founded in 1884. Today it includes 1800 graves.
Jewish cemetery (Hebenshausen)
The Jewish cemetery of Hebenshausen is located two kilometers north of the village on a small hill at the edge of a small village. It can be reached by a tarred dirt road at the edge of the village or by a small access road of the B27 in direction Göttingen shortly before the exit Marzhausen. The cemetery was established at the beginning of the 18th century to provide the growing Jewish community with a local burial place. Previously, burials had taken place in the Jewish cemetery in Witzenhausen.
City walk on the Jewish economic and trade history Heilbad Heiligenstadt
Heilbad Heiligenstadt is a small town in the Obereichsfeld, located in northern Thuringia. The district town is located in the border triangle of Hesse, Lower Saxony and Thuringia and is characterized above all by its rural location. For the first time, since the Middle Ages, a Jewish family was again resident in Heiligenstadt with the granting of a charter of protection for Heiligenstadt and the arrival of Levi Joseph Meyer (from 1808 Levi Meyer Loewenthal).
City walk Rudolstadt
Rudolstadt, former Schwarzburg princely residence and today a small Thuringian town, houses an interesting Judaica collection from the 17th and 18th centuries at Heidecksburg Castle. A small Jewish community with only a few families settled below the castle during this period, whose members were able to operate quite freely as merchants on the basis of a princely trade concession and were recognized as an equal religious community by Prince Ludwig Friedrich II of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1796.
Butcher store of the Friedmann family
In September 1892, Hermann Friedmann and his wife Clara opened a store for butcher's supplies in Jena's Grietgasse with an associated wholesale gut and fur business. Subsequently, the family business developed into a successful company that was also active internationally. The Friedmanns were strongly involved in the "Israelite Religious Community" of Jena. The premises of their store also functioned as a place of Jewish life.
Moses Simson and family
Moses Simson was born in Schwarza in 1808 and lived there until he moved to Suhl in 1848. However, he was already known as a businessman before his arrival in Suhl - both his father and grandfather must have been role models for him in his commercial activities. Moses Simson was the offspring of Simson Lippmann's first marriage to Mindel, the daughter of Meyer Löb from Heinrichs. His father concentrated on the trading area in Henneberg in Electoral Saxony and left Moses and his four siblings a fortune of 11,939 riksdaler at his death in 1812.
Adolph Behrendt and family
Adolph Behrendt was one of the first Jewish tradesmen to settle in Jena in the 1880s. He was married to Rosa Behrendt, and together they had seven children. In 1886 at the latest, they moved to Jena, where Adolph applied for a business license. In 1889/90, he purchased the house at Markt 17, which he successfully operated as Kaufhaus Behrendt until his death in 1913.